Walter Isaacson on Bill Gates at Harvard(harvardmagazine.com)
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Walter Isaacson on Bill Gates at Harvard
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My takeaway: launch fast from the bleeding-edge.
That makes me wonder — what is the edge today? What would be the equivalent of the Altair and the BASIC interpreter? What would be today's intersection of new hardware and old software?
The Oculus Rift comes mind. There's been some interesting work to bring the Rift to the masses through the Web:
https://github.com/Instrument/oculus-bridge
That makes me wonder — what is the edge today? What would be the equivalent of the Altair and the BASIC interpreter? What would be today's intersection of new hardware and old software?
The Oculus Rift comes mind. There's been some interesting work to bring the Rift to the masses through the Web:
https://github.com/Instrument/oculus-bridge
This piece by Malcolm Gladwell in the Guardian similarly covers 'think different' strategies - in this instance using examples of high achievers with Dyslexia or who were early orphans, and the strategies they construct to survive and thrive. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/28/blessed-weak-...