Kodak Invented the Digital Camera. Then It Buried It.

In 1975, a Kodak engineer built the world's first digital camera. His bosses told him to keep it quiet. Thirty-seven years later, Kodak was bankrupt. This is the story of how the company that owned photography invented the future and then lost to it. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:44 You Press the Button 1:49 The Money Machine 2:47 The Camera in the Closet 3:53 The Warning 4:46 Digital, Half-Hearted 5:34 The Social Network Before Facebook 6:21 The Last Bets 7:06 The Fall 8:03 Final thoughts Subscribe to Paper Empires for new documentaries every Tuesday and Friday. Where in the world are you watching from? Tell us in the comments 🌍 Sources: Wikipedia (Kodak, Steven Sasson, George Eastman, Kodak Brownie, Kodak Gallery), IEEE Spectrum, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Bloomberg, NBC News, MIT Technology Review. Music: "Deliberate Thought" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Images from Wikimedia Commons: (lista completa dos 22 créditos das fotos no upload-youtube.txt) Narration: AI-generated voice. #Kodak #BusinessDocumentary #DigitalCamera