>>11530119David Foster Wallace
If living life hadn't been so miserable for him, I'd bring him back because hearing his takes on how much society has changed these past 12 years and where it's going would be way more interesting than anything a dead scientist or mathematician could bring to the table (literally no engineers are worth bringing back to listen to; the "engineers" who are famous were scientists and/or mathematicians).
>inb4 NOOOOOO I LITERALLY SAID NO AUTHORS /LIT/ SCUMHe wrote a book about infinity so shut the fuck up.