The Race for Perfect

Posted by: Steve Hamm on November 07

Over the past two years, I’ve spent a good deal of timing learning about portable computing and writing a book, which his just been published: The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer. It’s a popular history of portable computing and also a narrative of a single, contemporary product (Lenovo’s X300) as it travels from conception to the marketplace. One of my purposes was to get young people interested in being engineers, designers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. With that goal in mind, I convinced my editors to allow me to publish an unusual excerpt in BusinessWeek magazine: We adapted one of the story lines, the tale of Alan Kay’s seminal role in portable computing, into the manga form. Here’s the manga. I understand that this is the first time a magazine has adapted a book excerpt into a cartoon. So it’s fresh. Help me out with viral distribution and send the link along to friends and colleagues—especially to young people who are just starting out on their careers or still in school.

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