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JUNE 18, 2024
To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. On its 3 April 1944 cover, Time called Vannevar Bush the “General of Physics,” for his role in accelerating wartime R&D.
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APRIL 2, 2024
If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.
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MAY 17, 2023
You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Or 60,000 tokens.
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MARCH 1, 2022
During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. Peace Through Strength The decision to work on weapons technology, or not, was highly personal to Bush and a decision not easy to unpack.
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. To give you an idea, this year's attendees included Google, Microsoft, Hulu, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Wired Magazine refers to this layered reality as the "Mirrorworld."
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AUGUST 11, 2021
Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.
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JULY 24, 2024
Google Docs , Microsoft Teams , Slack , Salesforce , and so on, are such a big part of many people’s daily lives that they hardly notice them. You’ve invested a lot of money into personal computers, which your employees are now using—IBM PCs, Apple Macintoshes, clones, and the like. Passing your colleague a disk doesn’t work.
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