Epstein Secrets

w total up the benefit to the rest of us? The convenience, the efficiency, the benefits of Microsoft's billions of research spending might dwarf even Redmond’s massive profits. “Increasing returns,” Arthur wrote, “cause businesses to work differently and they stand many of our notions of how business opera

ther dangers: Leslie Lamport, “Computer Science and State Machines”, Contribution to a Festschrift honoring Willem-Paul de Roever on his retirement” (Redmond: Microsoft Research, 2008). In its entirety it runs: “Computer scientists collectively suffer from what I call the Whorfian syndrome—the confusion of

the first successful computer spreadsheet program in 1983, software that permitted you to see and change your whole business one keystroke at a time. Kapor’s software helped move finance from quarter-by-quarter calculations to a really instant-by-instant sort of business - more or less the opposite of th

the future." "Well, for example, did you talk about information-highway software?" "it goes much deeper than that." At Microsoft's main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company's operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user p

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uture." "Well, for example, did you talk about information-highway software?" =/p> "It goes much deeper than that." At Microsoft's main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company's operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user po

together with it. It's ridiculous to consider how things will be remembered after you are dead. The pioneers of personal computers including Jobs, Kapor, Lampson, Roberts, Kaye, are all great people but = don't think any of us will merit an entry in a history book. I don't remember being wounded or

uture." "Well, for example, did you talk about information-highway software?" =/p> "It goes much deeper than that." At Microsoft's main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company's operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user po

together with it. It's ridiculous to consider how things will be remembered after you are dead. The pioneers of personal computers including Jobs, Kapor, Lampson, Roberts, Kaye, are all great people but = don't think any of us will merit an entry in a history book. I don't remember being wounded or