Time is fleeting, saith old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Where did the time go? Didn't you have anything to write?
Skipping any pretense of adequate excuse, I'll move to the point--I feel ready to, maybe even compelled to, post again to this InnovaScapes blog. Remarkably, in the meantime, some 18,900 page views have occurred. That number pales alongside the 240,088 views of my HP Phenom blog, but HP is better known, and at least at some point in our collective past history, was a great company.
But InnovaScapes Institute in fact has been busy over the past several years, particularly in terms of collecting oral and video histories of computing pioneers for various organizations, and in terms of involvement with societal impact of technology.
Rather than try to re-assemble four years of activity from calendar and diary records, we'll just start afresh for the 2020 New Year about to begin.
To do a re-start, I went back to read the 100+ posts that are in this blog from 2013 through 2015. And, to my great surprise and pleasure, they seem on balance to reflect views that I still hold. And even in places, I found myself tickled to read something--kind of that "wow, I had some insight and was able to construct cogent thoughts on that one." Reading old work for me has always had a bit of mystical quality to it--an out-of-body (or rather, an out-of-authorship) mode, where you don't recall writing the stuff, and it is pleasing to find that it isn't written too badly.
Several themes from six years ago are still relevant.
One was some interaction with Robert Atkinson with ITIF, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, in Washington DC. Atkinson et al just published a new report, The Case for Growth Centers, through Brookings. I will comment over the next several posts on that report.
Another was the launch of the Cisco Heritage Video Interview series. We'll do some coverage of that work, plus augment it with parallel work at the Computer History Museum, and at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This is incredibly satisfying work that has legacy value for many.
A third is the Novim Epiphany Awards program, about to enter its third year.
That's sufficient outline for the moment. Stay tuned, or rather, "tune in"
Best regards,
Chuck
