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The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors coul

The origins of the current great surge, the fifth since the end of the eighteenth century, dates back to 1971 when the first microprocessor was developed by Intel, a company founded three years earlier by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore[46]. Thanks to the integration of all the key components of a computer on a single chip, the microprocessor would g

also following some companies that are developing synthetic alternatives to palm oil so we don’t have to cut down so many forests to make room for palm plantations.

The point is that when we focus on all three things at once—technology, policies, and markets—we can encourage innovation, spark new companies, and get new products into the

Although they had just walked in, Gates immediately slouched in front of a new Macintosh that sat unattended on the receptionist’s desk, to see what software was loaded.