Marvin Minsky, in 1950. Actually, I'd like to take the entire group of people from the MIT media lab in the 1950's out for dinner, and just sit and listen to them for hours.

I assume that was really supposed to be two parts of the same question, but since the first part would of course require pizza, I'll take the second one as it's own question.

Chez Panisse in Berkeley, in 1975. The home of local, sustainable, organic restaurant food. I just finished reading The United States of Arugula, and it had a long history of Chez Panisse. I've always known they were Important - the book fleshed out exactly why and how.

(I like these questions! Why didn't I discover them before?)

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