The 10,000 Hour Rule “But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities” – Malcom Gladwell Malcom Gladwell in the 10,000 Hour Rule compares mathematicians and also describes how the famous “British Invasion” band came to be and other musicians. Malcom talks about the University of Michigan and how it opened its new Computer Center in 1871 in Ann Arbor. Also how Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world. Bill Joy took a tour through the computer center and fell in love with computing sciences. He found a job working on programming during the summer with a professor.
He has a lot of help and many years to come up with this technology. Pushing his ideas to the extreme, he made employees work long hours and on a “need to know basis”. If Jobs never pushed though, the world could be a very different place than what it is now. Fred Vogelstein goes into how risky it was for Apple to “show off” the Iphone for the first time. “Not only was he introducing a new kind of phone-something Apple has never made before- he was doing so with a prototype that barely worked.” (2).
Henry Ford once said, “I will build a motorcar for the masses…constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise…so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.” Firstly, Henry Ford created new technology that nobody has ever seen before. Secondly, Henry Ford created the model T that was the first car ever to be created. Thirdly, Henry Ford was the first man that created the assembly line. Henry Ford changed the way we look at transportation forever this is why he should have a memorial built in his honour. Henry Ford created new technology that nobody has ever seen before.
However, Speer finished it within a year again proving his organisational and efficiency skills which led to his appointment as Reich Minister for Armaments in 1942. As Hitler paid little attention to war production, Speer had many issues to deal with. In the same year, he set up the Central Planning Board to control the allocation for raw
Background of the Kittyhawk project In early 1990, Hewlett Packard’s (HP) Disk Memory Division (DMD) leaded by Bruce Spenner, held a profitable piece of the market with its high-performance 5.25- and 3.5-inch disk drivers and sales of $519 million (by 1992). Although HP’s DMD had not introduced 2.5-inch drive at all, as competitors within that market were too strong to attack directly, by 1991 Spenser was convinced that new disk-drive architecture with an innovative design could take the computing market by storm and that HP was the company to create it. In June1992, HP presented “Kittyhawk” - the world’s smallest hard drive which has 1,3 diameter and had 20 Mg of storage. Moreover, the drive had a number of unique technologies, including low power consumption and ability to withstand 3-foot fall without data loss. However, despite its significant characteristics, by middle 1994, “Kittyhawk” had failed to meet its targets.
Speer had started this project but never finished due to the war. In January 1938 Hitler asked Speer to build a new Reich Chancellery on the same site as the existing structure, and said he needed it for urgent foreign policy Speer was successful in building the large, impressive structure in nine months, Speer had employed thousands of workers in two shifts. Hitler, who had remained away from the project, was overwhelmed when Speer turned it over, fully furnished, two days early. As General Building Inspector, Speer was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement. From 1939 onwards, the Department used the Nuremberg Laws to evict Jewish tenants of non-Jewish landlords in
The 1920’s saw a shift in culture no other era had experienced thus far due to the growth and dominance of advertising. Technological inventions of this century, such as the radio, the billboard, and the magazine, brought ideas and information to people in new ways, impacting the entire social lifestyle of the time. Peoples live were suddenly filled with voices and signs telling them exactly what to buy and what they should. The happy-go-lucky and ‘nothing to lose’ persona encompassing the citizens of the time only fueled their decisions to go ahead and buy these offered products. Items were being offered that had never been on the market before such as refrigerators, telephone sets, cookers, the Model T by Henry Ford, and an endless amount of domestic hardware and commodities.
In an ever advancing world, we are constantly being bombarded with new technology. One of the most life changing pieces of technology was the personal computer. Throughout the past decade computers have advanced even more and almost everyone has one of their own or access to one at places like a school or library. With the ability to obtain vast amounts of information so simply with just a few clicks, the computer seems like such a great object. Although the computer is fantastic in many ways and has helped improve civilization’s way of living, have people all over the world come to rely on this device too much?
He was born in Poland in 1908. His family suffered great hardship in the first world war but he was exceptionally intelligent and determined, and managed to become a nuclear physicist. After the invasion of Poland, he came as as a refugee to England to work with James Chadwick at Liverpool University. He then went to Los Alamos, New Mexico, as part of the British contingent involved in the Manhattan Project to make the first atom bomb. In his mind there was only one justification for the bomb project: to ensure that Hitler did not get one first.
The year two-thousand and one was a time of new beginnings. We all, as Americans, had entered the new millennium with great expectations. The previous year, two-thousand, the United States feared the unthinkable with the age of the infamous personal computer also known as the "Information Age or the Digital Age" taking flight. Everyone around the world was buying into this commodity that could achieve a great amount of work, in so many ways from businesses, educational institutions, to many American families owning their own personal computer. "The great Y2K scare is what it was called.