Disrupting Rocket Science The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958 in response to Russia’s 1957 Sputnik launch, throughout most of its history NASA’s main competition came from Russia’s space program. Developing space programs is a massively complex and expensive effort requiring big government investments, the total cost of NASA’s space shuttle …

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The World Is The Main Course In an insightful 2011 Wall Street Journal article Why Software Is Eating The World, Marc Andreessen noted that “more than 10 years after the peak of the 1990s dot-com bubble, a dozen or so new Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter are sparking controversy in Silicon Valley, due to …

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