Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Innovators -- Walter Isaacson

symbiosis man machine,art science
humanity and sciences intersection
da vinci
romance science
AI less fruitful, get people involved with tech
harmony of the sphere
romance math machine poetry

wife reason over romanticism, tame passion, protect from excesses
match made in rational calculus
less dependence
intuitive perception of hidden things
preeminent discoverer of nature
innovators get it from other fields
thinking machine, analytical engine, programming
general purpose machine
conditional branching

circuits arrangements
and series
or parallel
logic tasks, mimic the way people think
computers, people who compute
eniac, base 10
wartime funding

multiple people
hardware , software what to do
faceless incremental advancements
subroutine, program
idea bee, pollinating ideas
numbers do things and mean things
computer science > EE

semiconductors, material science transistors
accumulate trivia for useful alter

silicon resistor capacitor distributed capacitor transistor...any electronic component in silicon, less soldering
doped with impurities on single slab
complete circuit on single chip
solid circuit
gold on oxide layers

cross license, no 4%
invent popular ways to use devices after made
cheap enough to buy on impulse
oil auto tandem, symbiotic
venture capital
bet on people than ideas for funding
noice moore, intel integrated tech corp
adverse to hierarchy
not decisive manager, avoid  confrontation
meritocracy company culture, innovation
idea s don't have to go up a chain of command, no aristocracy
empowered employees to be entrepreneurial
little agile company
impromptu meeting not buck up budge bosses
equal,challenge
guidelines, abc
congregation
constructive confrontation
brutal honesty clear focus, demanding drive to excellence
success breeds complacency, complacency breeds failure
open, congregation
ideas sparked disseminated refined applied
east coast class status, corp court in aristocracy
paranoid survive
detailed, driven
task master
single logic chip
hacker, playfulness

open source has contributions
different skills and personalities
distort reality to motivate people
Atari was syzygy

simple intuitive
wells fargo venture capital
philosophy
principles
authority questions, hierarchy circumvented, nonconformity admired, creativity nurtured
no fixed working hours no dress code, no white shirt
low flat fee
great idea  engineer business savvy

internet 3 groups university military private companies
iron triangle
military industrial academic complex
uni labs
humanities sciences
raytheon, defense contractor electronics firm
national defense military for internet
scientific model linear model for invention
practical application

work well with human minds then replace them imaginary creative thinking

man computer symbiosis

not poser pretenders
creative strokes, creativity
time sharing terminals in same mainframe core memory OS multitasking for experience, real time iteration
grand master playing simultaneous chess
love of art intuitive pattern
share idea without credit

modesty
batch processing annoying, punch cards\ cannot see computer

interactive, talking to computers
psychologist interface
sage semi automatic ground system

visually display changing situations

replicate human cognition

online man interaction database

digital does not replace print

inexpensive
rational scientists
human factors interactions

data network less terminals
decentralized hub approach
highway
packets data
packet switching node to node and then reassembled like torrenting
decentralized
distributed to route date
traffic rerouted
robustness
entrenched bureaucracy not chaining
dedicated circuit
bite sized packets

decentralization of authority and free info
no imposed control
distributed user generated
hackers and academics

internet protocol for address
tcp put together
transmission control protocol
right order
request re-transmission of ino lost
tcp/ ip

protocol interconnection

collaborative creativity

peer sharing
commonality of interest and goals instead of proximity

personal computer
intimate, keyboard access
free speech
community, control and share resources
the way people handle complexity in urgency
visually portray thinking and collaborate. network and computer displays
goal in life
augmented intelligence

playimeter, mouse
area of shape
mind hand eye coordination
harmony
less drudge work

outside of institutional control
simple kind useful
terminals]
 individuals
creative abrasion
present idea and say what other side said
disruptor
innovators dilemma
future
best way to invent the future is to invent it
max computers personal
innocuous label
complex possible
reflexive communication with self with personal medium
stars in eyes
benefit civilization
;pool resources and proceed without permission
guiding principle moor's law
convivial say to use
the suits
nimble inventors
no loner hobbyist
computer for counter culture for people
non-hierarchical communication
not predefined keywords, make up anything for posting
own uses
community
personal and convivial
machines of loving grace cybernetics
Altair, hobbyists
convivial tech
proprietary vs free hackers
hardware interchangeable commodity to software
logical rigor, precise statements
basic symbolic instruction code

serial obsessor focus
impervious to distraction
potent useful OS
napoleon power play to be in charge

software over hardware
meritocratic processes

monomaniacal program
exonerated, admonished, reprimand

licensee, pirating helped spread to standard
diode resistor and transistors
pretend to be completely in control and you are
GUI, bit mapping, desktop metaphor
good artists copy, great artist steal
conception is first step, what really maters is execution
culture in product
free sharing? open source collaborative
share so society not ugly
free non proprietary
 not selfish
liberated from restrictions, change run, redistribute copies
free speech not free beer
society
solidarity
sharing collaboration
passion, fun, not driven by money or self interest
esteem by peers solid contribution
reputation, social status elevation

you own your own words you are accountable on what you post
energized by failure
simple UN-intimidation savvy
shared interest
ponies from horse shit
right primordial soup brew of community
url uniform resource locator
hyper text transfer protocol
hyper text markup language
server request
subroutine, protocol
web of nodes and links
information mind
world wide web
hypertext project
free and open
freely public domain
sharing and collaboration
relinquishes all property rights to code, duplicated modify redistribute
open source
peer sharing and respect
editing tools
aggregators get more money than content maker
advertising to fund internet
micro payments, 2 way links
central coordination, harder to spread wildly
content pleases advertisers than people
content should be free??
crypto currency bitcoin

street find new uses for things
interact form communities generate own content
content
virtual comm unites web blogs
talking about self keeps u going community
community over crass advertisements
tools for sharing over commercialism and publishing
humanity
share story and connect us
not passive commercialism consuming, actual writing participating
not media recipient
not benign and mediocre as TV
good stories and heard, not waste vast land
yearn to be heard, human stories
advocates activists analysts and journalists
patience and stubborn
persistence and clueless-ness
democratize publishing
independent minded
find like minded people and communities service people
wiki, hyper card
repository
moderate each other
read write, not just read only
quick
engage
volunteers free
produce jolt of joy
volunteer by pollination
don't claim credit
civic satisfactions
every result
forces of reason triumph
crowd become expert
obscenity of advocate?
crowd, people go in and out
community
not dictated
power is distributed
organically
greatest collaborative knowledge project
commons based group projection
psychological reward of working with each other

doing useful tasks
wiki crack
being published
words in public
not anointed by media elite
common work, not given to by platter
peer production engaged
empower knowledge
share own knowledge
not passive receive
sum to all human knowledge
create distribute knowledge, invested in it
anywhere and everywhere for knowledge

bots, web crawler, query server
yahoo is handpicked directory
exploring vs seeking something specific
automated search engines
commercialize inventions
produce, make money to fund it

interact with screen
humanities and science
Stanford
world breaking science
commercial endeavors
incubator
real world pure research, motivated harder
Montessori schools, no rules or order question everything
rebelliousness
physical energy
goofy smart
intellectually rigorous, find flaws in regular talking
augment and amplify than replicate and replace
user always right
humanities, interaction
value of sites, stations and links
have healthy disregard with impossible
download all of website and keep the links
back link citation analysis back rub
math equation, back link recursive
quality and quantity
search results
based on what the world thought about that age
don't blame that user
anchor text
encourage commercial endeavors entrepreneurship research
technology and make it
build something of value and deliver a service compelling enough so that people will just use it
no advertising
customer focused point of view
human and machines
remove human hands, web crawlers, human machine judgement, links with own website, tap wisdom from human input, designs
inquire within among everything

brain analog continuum of possibilities instead of computer precise measurements units
signal pulses analog waves, maybe and probability, nuances of bafflement
digital approach, mixed procedures methods
pseudomorphosis to neurology
perception
original thought
deep blue, brute force 200million ways
Watson simulate understanding and to act like it understood
meaningful AI, massive processing data vs creativity and imagination
abstract thinking
hard problems easy and easy problems hard, ie can a crocodile play basketball
brain distributed system like internet
reverse engineer intelligence in a carbon based system synapses and neurons
conscious of existence
neurons operate
interpret info
singularity, future
computers can design itself to be super smart
glimpses of a receding mirage
human ingenuity will never beautify or simple than nature
originality and creativity
integrated domain useful consist with human aid, programming harmony
superior skills to partnership
what computers are good at, humans are weak, vice versa, strategic planning than calculations
human + computer > best human or best computer
manage process of collaborating with machine
counteract understandings of others, amateurs to partner with computers

pretense humility
percentage likelihood of success, like for medicine
intuition with infinite breath of machine
with humans than try to replace them
computerize cognitive computing, complement thinking skills of human brain
collaborator and companion not threat
harbinger of computing augmented human intelligence and artificial intelligence
co evolution
conjunction with humans
creativity is collaborative process innovation of teams than lone geniuses
network, work
expand on idea that already exists, generations, understood of the trajectory of tech change and took baton of innovators that superseded them
wide array of specialties team
generations
physical proximity is special, flesh not digitally
working together collaborative, serendipitous gathering
adroit
pairing visionaries with execution
procedures
packet network, power distributed through nodes
collaboration, dna of creators
crowds
clear vision
strong teams, loyalty
passion, willful visionaries, else adrift
product people,  cared about engineering and design, not just marketers and sales
detriment of sustained innovation
product guys need to be first
deepest understanding of engineering and product design
social
digital tool
communities
machine are not social
digital have no personality or desire, they are what we make of them
human creativity
story telling, moral conscious
not just realms science, engineering and math
imagination , humanity, creativity
liberal arts tech
shame, no math or physics
philistines,
poetical science
art tech manifest in computers
individual imagination collaboration












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