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note to the selection committee
This presentation is even more effective and emotive in its longer, 8 minute form - it includes important transitions and movies that are
better seen using Apple’s “Keynote” presentation tool - I have no issue keeping it short, and using PowerPoint but I wanted to make a little
plea to allow me the tools and time I’m used to
This is inspired by my work as the CEO and founder of 5 successful technology companies, 4 of which I’ve sold to larger holding
companies and the 5th this is a start-up focused on humanizing meeting rooms and classrooms - an IoT collaboration system.
Thank you for the opportunity to pitch
- Anthony
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confessions of a reformed technologist.
Technologists have always pushed the boundaries of gathering and distributing information.
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Early in our history, we used stories, fables and myths to communicate values, lessons and historical context.
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AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne
The invention of paper allowed us to record our history, and the printing press gave us the ability to distribute information to more than just the anointed few.
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we endeavored to create faster ways of distributing the words we wrote
We declared ink mightier than the sword and we endeavored to create faster ways of distributing the words we wrote.
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we endeavored to create faster ways of distributing the words we wrote
semaphore telegraph telephone
Napoleon’s 1790 semaphores,
Morse’s 1837 telegraph, Bell’s 1876 telephone
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ARPANEt
and Licklider’s Intergalactic Computer Network ...
... were all inventions designed in the race to deliver faster, ubiquitous and affordable information.
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Simultaneously, inventors sought to enhance human capabilities through mechanization.
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calculatormechanical loom universal machine
Jacquard’s 1801 mechanical loom, Hollerith’s 1890 tabulating machine, Turing’s 1936 universal machine
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and the 1946 ENIAC ...
were all innovations designed in the race to automate human capabilities.
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vacuum tubes tape storage integrated circuit
The arguably inevitable advances in telecommunications, storage, computing power and binary abstraction gave us the ability to commoditize delivery, infrastructure, platforms and software.
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google data center
A pretentious monument of fiber, silicon and code.
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I believe that we have sought only to solve problems as engineers, and not as empathetic human beings.
and that we must lose our technophile bigotry before we become relegated to the ranks of tech support.
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1984 Apple Macintosh Commercial
I believe our industry must abandon its desire to mechanize people by relegating them to “users”…
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We are now faced with innovating a new era for humanity.
An era where the human condition will be transformed through the technology we design.
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The infrastructure now exists for rapidly deploying advanced, scalable, and complex systems,
The infrastructure now exists for rapidly deploying advanced, scalable, and complex systems.
but...
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our legacy will be written by the interfaces we create.
but
but our legacy will be written by the interfaces we create.