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๐Ÿ“š From Xerox PARC to Apple, women helped invent the way we use computers today. Join us for IN THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR, a #booktalk with author ERIN MALONE, led by ABBY COVERT. ๐Ÿ“… Thurs June 12 ๐Ÿ•™ 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ ONLINE ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ www.eventbrite.com/e/1333098526... #Design #WomenInTech

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Apparently Kennedy had just read Barbara Tuchman's newly published The Guns of August which pointed out that WWI started because everybody kept going by the Rules of Engagement instead of using their brains. Kennedy's tactics rejected every DoD attempt to follow the RoE because...

they all involved a first strike and we were playing with nukes here. and as everybody knows, nobody wins a nuclear war. The RoE are always based on the LAST war everybody fought, the technology of which is outdated. Watch the movie Thirteen Days which is free with ads on Youtube. p.s....

This is important History ... many years ago I worked on a Xerox PARC workstation ... and they were the ones that implemented the BitBlt with computer graphics - wish I could make the talk but busy that day