BLOOMBERG Bloomberg Businessweek Debrief A Conversation With Robert Kraft July 16, 2017
Programmable computer. Its arrival gave the allies a huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering computing work because it seemed like the proper thing to do, and it has suffered the consequences ever...