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\u201cThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.\u201d Alan Kay – Computer Science Pioneer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Computing has always moved forward in a kind of jerky, stop-start motion \u2014 what biologists call a punctuated equilibrium. New technological capabilities emerge gradually from research labs and garage tinkerers until, eventually, it feels like something new is in the offing. One or more pioneering feats of invention follow, shifting the axis of possibility. Suddenly, we find ourselves in a new paradigm and standing witness to platforms that unleash waves of innovation. Examples include the Apple Macintosh, the iPhone, and our own Salesforce Platform, which advanced an enterprise software as a service (SaaS<\/a>) model that spawned an entire industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suddenly, we find ourselves in a new paradigm and standing witness to platforms that unleash waves of innovation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Alan Kay was one such pioneer. In 1971, when Kay began his work at Xerox PARC, the computers he worked with were as big as a room, and only four of them were connected to the emerging ARPAnet, a precursor to the Internet. Kay, a gifted musician, brought a humanistic sensibility to innovation that helped him invent the Dynabook, a daring vision for personal computing, in 1972. The Dynabook was a battery-powered laptop with a touchscreen and wireless access to all the world\u2019s information and, most radically, was suitable for use even by children. Kay and his team at PARC went on to invent many core building blocks of modern personal computing, including overlapping windows, the graphical user interface, and dynamic object-oriented programming. Later, at Apple, Kay also helped develop the vision for the iconic 1987 Apple Knowledge Navigator video, a clear antecedent of the iPad and the iPhone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n