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Why The Future Doesn't Need Us
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:16:19
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. Instead I got a job working for Darpa putting
Berkeley Unix on the Internet and fixing it to be reliable and to run large research
applications well. This was all great fun and very rewarding. And, frankly, I saw no
robots here, or anywhere near.
Still, by the early 1980s, I was drowning. The Unix releases were very successful,
and my little project of one soon had money and some staff, but the problem at
Berkeley was always office space rather than money - there wasn't room for the
help the project needed, so when the other founders of Sun Microsystems showed
up I jumped at the chance to join them. At Sun, the long hours continued into the
early days of workstations and personal computers, and I have enjoyed
participating in the creation of advanced microprocessor technologies and Internet
technologies such as Java and Jini.
From all this, I trust it is clear that I am not a Luddite. I have always, rather, had
a strong belief in the value of the scientific search for truth and in the ability of
great engineering to bring material progress. The Industrial Revolution has
immeasurably improved everyone's life over the last couple hundred years, and I
always expected my career to involve the building of worthwhile solutions to real
problems, one problem at a time.
I have not been disappointed. My work has had more impact than I had ever
hoped for and has been more widely used than I could have reasonably expected
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