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O. SantolallaCreate and Deliver a Killer Product Demohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3954-4_10

10. Trends in Technology

Oscar Santolalla1  
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Helsinki, Finland
 

“Spend 5 to 10 percent of your time looking at the future.”

—Gerd Leonhard, Futurist

When Douglas Engelbart presented “the Mother of All Demos” in 1968, neither the Internet nor its predecessor ARPANET yet existed. How would he make it possible to show what his colleagues were doing on their computers at Menlo Park while presenting inside an auditorium in San Francisco? It sounded like science fiction. Nothing stopped Engelbart from using the best available technologies to show his team’s research work, though. He used dedicated microwave links to share the videos ...

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