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Do you call Medical research old business?
Grandfathered in so to speak.
Do you expect Medical research to be all hip n cool and use Heroku? Or should they choose IBM for their research into solving complex problems with their custom software and their custom blades?
This ... this makes me feel really bad about my entrepreneurial efforts.
As I say it was a fair few years ago and I was quite young, but it made me start to realise that business has basically no morals. It's probably shaped the way I view business today. Not super dramatically, don't get me wrong, but this video reminded me of that.
You can Google for IBMs involvement with the holocaust, it's quite interesting.
Wait, did I hear that correctly. They went from 5 cofounders to 1300 employees in a year !? This ... this makes me feel really bad about my entrepreneurial efforts.
Even though the video is focused on IBM, it very much puts into perspective the sheer amount of progress that has been made in computation in 100 years. Its amazing.
Great video, enjoyed it a lot. At 11:53, A man says: "I've discovered a way to build curiosity into a system". Does anyone know who he is and what he means by that?
i have no idea what he is talking about
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One of the strongest memories I have regarding IBM is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I visited it on a school trip to Washington years ago, I took with me quite a few very strong memories, and one, was of a machine used by the Germans to help produce the Jewish Registry. It was sat behind some glass, with the easy to recognise IBM logo stamped proudly in the corner. As I say it was a fair few years…