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21 " It was thus that in the second half of 1969—amid the static of Woodstock, Chappaquiddick, Vietnam War protests, Charles Manson, the Chicago Eight trial, and Altamont—the culmination was reached for three historic enterprises, each in the making for almost a decade. NASA was able to send a man to the moon. Engineers in Silicon Valley were able to devise a way to put a programmable computer on a chip called a microprocessor. And ARPA created a network that could connect distant computers. Only the first of these (perhaps the least historically significant of them?) made headlines. THE "
― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
22 " When you help build something, you own it, you’re vested in it. That’s far more rewarding than having it handed down to you.”111 "
23 " The process of technological development is like building a cathedral. Over the course of several hundred years new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each saying, “I built a cathedral.” Next month another block is placed atop the previous one. Then comes along an historian who asks, “Well, who built the cathedral?” Peter added some stones here, and Paul added a few more. If you are not careful, you can con yourself into believing that you did the most important part. But the reality is that each contribution has to follow onto previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.109 "
24 " First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This was true of every era of creative ferment. The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution all had their institutions for collaborative work and their networks for sharing ideas. "
25 " Visions without execution are hallucinations.31 "
26 " Innovation is most vibrant in the realms where open-source systems compete with proprietary ones. Sometimes "
27 " Innovation happens in stages. "
28 " the importance of spawning new "
29 " There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on. If "
30 " Just as combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery drove the Industrial Revolution, the combination of the computer and distributed networks led to a digital revolution that allowed anyone to create, disseminate, and access any information anywhere. Historians "
31 " In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers. "
32 " In September 1998, one month after they met with Bechtolsheim, Page and Brin incorporated their company, opened a bank account, and cashed his check. On the wall of the garage they put up a whiteboard emblazoned “Google Worldwide Headquarters. "
33 " In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers. In "
34 " perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let "
35 " Si Von Neumann y su equipo hubieran seguido liderando las innovaciones y las hubiesen hecho de dominio público, ¿habría conducido ese modelo de desarrollo de código abierto a un progreso más rápido de los ordenadores? "
36 " ¿O, por el contrario, la competencia de mercado y los incentivos económicos a la generación de propiedad intelectual son más eficaces a la hora de fomentar la innovación? "
37 " En los casos de internet, la Red y algunas formas de software, el modelo abierto demostró ser más efectivo. "
38 " McCarthy’s vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay’s vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and processing power. "
39 " markets rather than merely chasing old ones. "
40 " The knack is to get people to follow you, even to places they may not think they can go, by motivating them to share your sense of mission. "