Engelbart finally came up with his answer: We need to create Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKRs), a new kind of tool that can integrate and update the latest knowledge held by a group of people and allows others to use it anytime, anywhere. Such tools would not have been possible in the printing era because paper, as a static physical medium, has... See more

Livingston: Who did you learn things from at Google? Did you have mentors? Buchheit: I didn't know anything about building these large systems before working at Google. So I'd look at how different parts of Google work and sort of say, "Does that apply to us? Can we reuse that technique?"—since there was already a successful model of how

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