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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. Paul, Minn. He was put in charge of establishing an electronics lab at the company.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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We shouldn't overly rely on focus groups. Media News Group/Getty Images. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." People have criticized Jobs's personal traits. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them," he said. "We

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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And late in 2022, the company had begun training a group of operators on a state-of-the-art virtual-reality simulator system. Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Making eVTOLs personal.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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The Rise of Groupware

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But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration.

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Peapod Comes Out on Earth Day '09 - GoodCleanTech

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Autoblog Green Cleantech Blog Cleantech Group CNETs Green Tech Earth2Tech EcoGeek Ecotality Green Inc. But just in case non-iPod users plan to purchase one of these $12,500 babies, theres an in-dash iPod you can buy separately. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Got a Question?

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. Since projects were not assigned from above, the researchers formed their own groups; support for a project depended on how many people its instigator could get to work on it. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC.

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