Over the past two years, I’ve wearied a good dole out of timing learning about easily transported computing and writing a book, which his candid been published: The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer. It’s a popular recital of portable computing and also a relation of a single, contemporaneous product (Lenovo’s X300) as it travels from conception to the marketplace. One of my purposes was to get young people interested in being engineers, designers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. With that end in mind, I convinced my editors to allow me to publish an unusual excerpt in BusinessWeek storehouse: We adapted one of the story lines, the apologue of Alan Kay’s seminal role in portable computing, into the manga form. Here’s the manga. I understand that this is the first time a magazine has adapted a volume excerpt into a cartoon. So it’s fresh. Help me off with viral distribution and send the link along to friends and colleagues—especially to young people who are just starting out in continuance their careers or appease in school.
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