Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray was so far ahead of his time that it took decades for the industry to catch up to him. The Computer History Museum remembers the maverick inventor with this video.

Seymour Cray talking about the merging of the digital and the biological, in 1995: “The whole concept of living things are digital I think we all have to face now. They are truly digital. They are made of molecules, that we don’t understand how they work but we’re beginning to understand their physical properties. It’s a very exciting time coming. Very scary because we don’t know what kind of mess we’re going to get into here with biological tampering I would say is the right word. I certainly don’t want to take any moral responsibility in this area but clearly humans are going to mess with it in the future.”