If you want a taste of just how profoundly the digital age changed photography, consider this: more pictures will be taken worldwide in the next two minutes, than were taken during the first 150 years of photography.

In this episode, Steven Sasson remembers how he tinkered with a weird new image sensing technology called CCDs to invent the world's first digital camera. Then we’ll hear from his good friend Eric Fossum who explains how he miniaturized that technology to help NASA explore the solar system.

In 1972, Steven walked into the boardroom at Kodak to demonstrate his new, all electronic camera. He held in his hands the future of photography but the corporate execs in the room, to their own demise, couldn’t see beyond its expensive price tag.

Two decades later, Eric Fossum miniaturized Steven’s imaging technology, effectively fitting an entire digital camera on a single computer chip. He named his innovation the C-MOS image sensor and without it, there would be no smartphone cameras. Today, his new startup is tackling the next era of digital photography to help us see deeper into space than ever before.

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