The part that stands out to me is this: "Half-fearing the wrath of his superiors were they to discover his pet project, Tomlinson initially kept his invention to himself. As a colleague recalled, “When he showed it to me […] he said, ‘Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed to be working on.’”"
How many of you have stumbled onto something very cool and useful which was fairly emphatically not what you should have been working on at the time?
Hell, my entire technology career is an outgrowth of (mostly) playing on the campus UNIX servers while at university. To say nothing of a number of tools I've come up with.
The other observation is that email to G+, the killer apps are those which allow people to connect to other people through technology.
How many of you have stumbled onto something very cool and useful which was fairly emphatically not what you should have been working on at the time?
Hell, my entire technology career is an outgrowth of (mostly) playing on the campus UNIX servers while at university. To say nothing of a number of tools I've come up with.
The other observation is that email to G+, the killer apps are those which allow people to connect to other people through technology.