If it wasn't for this invention, you wouldn't be reading this piece | By Don Lincoln, a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, via CNNOpinion
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the author of"The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind." He also produces a series of science education videos. Follow him on Facebook. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
There are a few moments in the history of technology when everything changed, like when Alexander Graham Bell spoke into the mouthpiece of a device he had invented saying"Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you." With that one success, the telephone was invented, allowing mothers the world over to nag that you never call. Don LincolnThis month, we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of another such moment, albeit one that is not as well known to school children. It was in March of 1989 that an unpublished manuscript entitled"Information Management: A Proposal" was submitted to the publication office of CERN, which is Europe's flagship particle physics research laboratory.
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