Sublime

Entrepreneurial innovations, those undertaken by lone individuals, looked like they would be permanently marginalized. If you were smart enough and wanted to make a difference through technology, the corporate labs were where you had to be. The nineteenth century was the century of entrepreneurial tinkerers and lone scientists; the twentieth was

he accepted that strong unions were necessary to moderate the power of corporations and spread the affluence of American capitalism through the social order.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was more than just a visible symbol of the death of Communism. It was a defeat for the entire world system of nation-states and a triumph of efficiency and markets. The fulcrum of power underlying history has shifted. We believe that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 culminates the era of the nation-state, a peculiar

The third scenario is that the Western tech industry itself realizes that its interests lie in imagining a new Great Safety Net for the new age of ubiquitous computing and networks—and that it shouldn't wait for feeble Western governments to take the lead. The critical (if transient) role the corporate world played in securing the legacy of the

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