TEDxSoMa – Damon Horowitz – 1/22/10
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“engineering serendipity” What an amazing ideal delivered so succinctly
A thoughtful tech leader. How rare.
Ironically, we watched this video on YouTube (which is owned by Google) and this morning Aardvark announced that it had been acquired by Google too.
Damon seems to have realized in reverse order that the horse belongs in front of the carriage that humanity should lead technology, not vice versa.
When I began to learn technology I had already minored in Philosophy. A solid grounding in Philosophy s/b bootcamp for those pursuing technology.
Dear Damon, I loved your talk. Would you send me this speech in text? I´d like to translate it and spread to colleagues who can´t understand spoken english.
Beautiful. In the full sense of the word.
amazing… I want to help.. Is it open source?
“Your project is amazing ! thank you for sharing it ”
and if a computer generated that responce it could do it but it will MEAN something else isnt it
“Your project is amazing! thank you for sharing it ” -youtube