&289/ Watch to Be Inspired: The Race Was On

Last October it was 50 years of Sputnik. The cold war aside, the shock spurred several initiatives in the following years which lead to

• An engineering boom and the new math
• DARPA, NLS, hypertext, and the Internet's and GUI's ancestors
• The National Science Foundation NSF
• Standardized project management frameworks
• And last but not least: A man on the moon in 1969 - whatever happened since then ...

1 month ago Bill Gates asked on LinkedIn: "How can we do more to encourage young people to pursue careers in science and technology?" My answer was: “As parents: Be afraid of the future (Sputnik effect) and provide good toys (LEGO, fischertechnik).”

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