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Why Silicon Valley is better than the rest of the places I've visited
- david927 14y agoThat's a poor comparison, though. Engelbart, in his genius, was pushing the boundries of technology itself. If he was socially inept, it's irrelevant. Google, in this example, is pushing the boundries of the application of technology. (Look! You can Skype as you skydive!) As technological progress continues, we're going to find wonderful uses for new technology that we've never thought of before -- and we're going to find horrible uses as well. We'll say to ourselves later, "What were we thinking?" Certainly our instinct is to be shy of new uses of technology, but that doesn't mean such an instinct is always wrong.
- qznc 14y agoIn other words, Engelbart was "inventive", while Google is "innovative".
- david927 14y agoEveryone is innovative. A child using a tablet in a new way is innovative. Engelbart was the kind of genius that creates tsunamis that everyone (you, me, Google) are still surfing off of decades later. Call it what you want.
- patrickk 14y agoNice argument for building products for leads users - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_user
- tom_m 14y agoWhat? It's cool to be in tech now...been that what for years now and we're all social out here in Palo Alto. Of course I came from New York...