Full Self Driving V14 navigation screen, 2026 Tesla Model Y. Camp Hasler, Three Lakes, Wisconsin. June 11, 2026. Fritz Hasler photo.
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I’ve been kind of a techno nerd since I was a teenager. When I was 17 in 1957, I talked my dad into buying a 16mm film Bolex movie camera as well as the cutting and gluing machine to use for editing, for his research lab at the University Wisconsin. Then I proceeded to shoot film of various activities like family Colorado ski trips, Wisconsin University Club (Hoofers) sailing on Lake Mendota, and even a church musical. Then I proceeded to produce and edit movies by shooting film, then cutting and gluing film strips together much like Hollywood had done since the turn of the century. I even laid down a magnetic stripe on the film for the musical and recorded dialog and musical numbers on it.
As a senior scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center starting in 1974, I was the leader in my rather technically backward atmospheric science research branch in using Apple Macs, Apple LaserWriter printers, Adobe Photoshop V1.0, and Microsoft Word 1.0 in putting together short articles for meetings that looked more like they came out of a professional type setting shop rather than made with the crude dot-matrix printers used with most computers those days.
