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Mark Mills - The Cloud Revolution

A Book with Legs

CHAPTER

The Serendipity of Technology

Serendipity is the revelation of something that's possible, whether you imagined it in your head because you're doing research on something collateral or you saw it happen. We invented none of the atoms that exist in the universe, but we don't have it. And yet we keep discovering unveiling new combinations of those forces in atoms that do things that are utterly magical. You know, the old Arthur C. Clarke line about magic and technology? So yes, but how do you get more of that? Well, you let smart people who are curious pursue their passions. All of history has shown that that has led to all kinds of magic that we really like and products that are profound and

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