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David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
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
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
Three technological revolutions dawned in 1953: thermonuclear weapons, stored-program computers, and the elucidation of how life stores its own instructions as strings of DNA.
George Dyson • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
less of an organisation delivering for people and more of an open-source social movement, or as Leonard puts it, ‘instead of us being the hero, being a hero among heroes.’110
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Brand ran the Whole Earth Truck Store, which began as a roving truck that sold useful tools and educational materials, and in 1968 he decided to extend its reach with the Whole Earth Catalog. On its first cover was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was “Access to Tools.” The underlying philosophy was that technology could b
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