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A history of this sort of folly might start with some of the failed schemes of the New Deal economists before describing the way that the "whiz kids" led LBJ astray on both the Vietnam War and the war on poverty.
I do not mean to jeer, but the point is that, beginning with Future Schlock (endorsed by Richard Nixon and later by Newt Gingrich), every technological change is hailed with a whiz, boom, bang, etc.
The Alexandre Dumas-inspired swashbuckler The Man in the Iron Mask is thoroughly second-rate--which is to say that it waddles when it ought to whiz, clanks when it strives for cornball poetry, and transforms its august stars into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe.
For most of his career at Intel, Grove was, if not anonymous, then certainly overshadowed by Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, technological whiz kids who co-founded the company in 1968.
In Frederic Wakeman's 1946 novel, The Hucksters , the hero, played by Clark Gable in the film version, is a tough-guy creative whiz who gives up on advertising as soon as he realizes that he's genuinely afraid of losing the big soap account.