Sublime

Over the next 50 years, Vail’s organization—eventually called the Bell Telephone Laboratories—produced the transistor, the solar cell, the CCD chip (used inside every digital camera), the first continuously operating laser, the Unix operating system, the C programming language, and eight Nobel Prizes. Vail created the most successful industrial res

Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired, puts it this way: “To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it. But the world’s supercomputers choke while trying to unravel a product into its simple primes.”

So that’s that: Babbage realized machines could do math. Turing added that they could also run programs. Von Neumann figured out how to build the hardware, and Shannon showed how the software could do things that didn’t at first look like math problems.

our physical infrastructure, like roads and buildings—use policies specifically designed to get these breakthroughs created and into the marketplace.

Because each and every technology is not a single standalone idea but a web of many ideas, the technium itself emerges as a significant partner in invention. Libraries, journals, communication networks, and the accumulation of other technologies help create the next idea, beyond the efforts of a single individual. If Alexander Graham Bell had not

Daniel echoed the statement Core had made during their visit. “Nothing is certain. Outcomes follow probabilities.”

Danny Hillis explains what motivated him to build a linear Clock

Watson and Crick finally unraveled the molecular structure of DNA a few years later, in 1953, they discovered that it fulfilled von Neumann’s two requirements precisely.