Douglas Engelbart’s Vision

Forty years ago, a Silicon Valley engineer named Douglas Engelbart made a presentation so influential that computer scientists now call it “the mother of all demos.”

More than a mere product demo, it was a down payment on an ambitious idea: that networked computers could help groups of people work together more effectively, raising the collective intelligence of the human race and making it possible to solve some of our most pressing problems, including pollution, famine, disease, and war. More…

(Source: http://blog.wired.com)

Giving Capitalism Its Due

Carl Schramm on the importance of entrepreneurship.

Carl Schramm doesn’t buy the idea that some businesses are “too big to fail.” That notion, says the president of the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation, only creates obstacles for entrepreneurs. Instead, he sees the failure of big companies as the “moment when 1,000 flowers can bloom.”….

A great article in the Wall Street Journal - Check it out.

(Source: online.wsj.com)