RIP Douglas Engelbart
The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
Douglas Engelbart
The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
Douglas Engelbart
Hace exactamente dos años en Singapur, Marko Ahtisaari presentaba al mundo el Nokia N9, quizás el mejor teléfono desarrollado por Nokia, todo, desde el diseño de su hardware, como el software eran innovadores, el N9 es uno de esos pocos dispositivos que logran que el hardware y el software se complementen tan bien, que es imposible pensar que pueda existir el uno sin el otro, lamentablemente el que tendría que haber sido el dispositivo que marcaría el futuro de Nokia, nació muerto y sus restos terminaron siendo canibalizados por la misma Nokia y por muchos de sus competidores, ciertos aspectos del hardware fueron usados para la serie Lumia y muchas de las ideas y conceptos del diseño de la UI/UX acabaron en los Asha, BB10 y SalifishOS, un destino un poco triste para un teléfono que tenia todo para encaminar nuevamente a Nokia en el sendero del crecimiento, afortunadamente la herencia del N9 sigue vigente hoy, y el tiempo esta comenzado a demostrarle a Stephen Elop (al que ya le queda poco tiempo en Nokia) lo falto de visión y cobarde que fue.
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!
Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it;”
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.Edgar Albert Guest