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Marc Andreessen explains IBM founder Thomas Watson‘s famous “Wild Ducks” program
Marc believes that the organizational complexity is one reason you don’t see innovation at large companies. But that’s not the only reason:
“I think there’s another deeper thing underneath that that people reall... See more
Startup Archivex.comhow to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
no more need to have them enforce our contracts.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Academic scientists, not politicians and bureaucrats, spurred the funding for and shaped the design of more-powerful computers, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and the Internet—a marvelous communication network of many nodes but no single command center.