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The Innovation Delusion and the Maintenance Mindset Without doubt, technological innovations are tremendously important. We hear the term “innovation” seemingly everywhere: In books; magazines; white papers; blogs; classrooms; offices; factories;...
...career as a producer for “Bloomberg West”, Bloomberg Television’s San Francisco-based technology program. Over her 3 years at Bloomberg, she booked guests, coordinated daily live segments, developed long-term series and...
...it was not a stored-program computer in the modern sense of the term. Historian David Alan Grier described it as more like an array of electronic adding machines and arithmetic...
...suggested that every personal computer company must have a long-term plan to build a super-powered portable computer. Sinclair’s vision of that “super-powered portable” had many similarities to today’s iPad. The...
Paul is a forecaster with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its impact on business and society. He advises private and governmental clients worldwide, and teaches at...
...rows of relays for decimal places she didn’t need. Indeed, Hopper’s popularization of the term computer “bug” came from her programmer’s familiarity with the hardware: a moth got wedged inside...
...as free software under a modified MIT license years before the term “open source” was coined, as Van Rossum wanted to share it widely. Forming initially out of mailing lists...