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Mike Amundsen
Principal API Architect for CA / Layer 7
@mamund
Telephones, Mechanical Turks, and the Future of APIs
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Charles Babbage Lady LovelaceSamuel Morse George Boole Alexander
Graham BellAlan Turing
Claude ShannonVannevar Bush
Douglas Engelbart Ted Nelson
Tim Berners-Lee
Roy T. Fielding
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."George Santayana, Life of Reason Vol. 1, 1905
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"Those who ignore the mistakes of the future are bound to make them."Joseph D. Miller, 2006
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The Time Is Close At Hand
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“That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”-President R.B. Hayes, 1876
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"The time is close at hand when the scattered members of civilized communities will be as closely united, so far as instant communication is concerned, as the various members of the body now are by the nervous system."
- Scientific American, 1880
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"Young ladies are very much superior to boys They are steadier, do not drink beer, and are always on hand."- W. H. Eckert, 1881
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Ghosts In The Machine
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Let them eat cake!
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Paris
London
Leipzig
DresdenAmsterdam
Paul I of RussiaBenjamin Franklin
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Napoleon I Catherine the GreatParis
Milan
London
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington D.C.
Havana
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Ignoring The Ghosts Of The Future
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not sure
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008)
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“A web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”-Tim Berners-Lee
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“Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.”
-Wikipedia
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."George Santayana, Life of Reason Vol. 1, 1905
"Those who ignore the mistakes of the future are bound to make them."Joseph D. Miller, 2006
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"Write programs that do one thing and do it well."- Douglas Mcilroy, 1978
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"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together."- Douglas Mcilroy, 1978
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"Those who ignore the mistakes of the future are bound to make them."Joseph D. Miller, 2006
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Mike Amundsen
Principal API Architect for CA / Layer 7
@mamund
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