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Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
When Storyful first laid out its process to staff at YouTube, Clinch heard a Google coder scoff at the proposal to have expert hands curate footage. We have an algorithm for that.
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“They were copier-heads who had no clue about what a computer could do,” he said of Xerox’s management. “They just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry.”109 In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atana
... See moreWalter Isaacson • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
On his desk and permeating his conversations was Apple interface guru Donald Norman ’s classic tome The Psychology of Everyday Things, the bible of a religion whose first, and arguably only, commandment is “The user is always right.”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
importance of the code and the care that engineers take when modifying it.
Jason Arbon • How Google Tests Software
It was Brin’s mathematic calculations on those possible 500 million variables that identified the important pages.