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...Martin: At first I thought, this might be 10 pages. Then as the pages began accumulating on the word processor, I thought, "Ohhhhh" (a sound of dawning resignation...
...extend the Internet to things the size of molecules that can be injected under the skin, leading to Internet-enabled people. Such devices, together with Internet-enabled sensors embedded in clothing, will avoid a hospital stay for medical patients who would otherwise be there only for observation. The speech processor used today in cochlear implants for the hearing impaired could easily be connected to the Internet; listening to Internet radio could soon be a direct computer-to-brain experience...
...Grove and Intel were not out of the woods yet. Intel faced its biggest--and most public--crisis in 1994. After introducing the new Pentium processor, the fastest microchip yet created, Intel engineers found a bug in their new product. At first, Grove did not bend. Refusing to see the public relations implications, he decided to selectively replace only a few computers containing the problematic chip...
...feature known as a toolbar. We now take toolbars for granted. If you are reading this article online on a Windows PC, the toolbar is the series of icons at the foot of your screen that with one click allows you to switch from your browser to your word processor or your e-mail. Had those toolbars been created elsewhere, they no doubt would have been patented and never incorporated into Windows. Once added to Windows, toolbars became available for use in software programs created by Microsoft and thousands of independent companies. That is the great efficiency of innovation...
Robert Dreyer, one of Rosin's co-founders, has worked at Intel on its Pentium processor for years...