Rob Conery’s NDC Porto 2025 keynote celebrates the wild side of innovation, showing how unstructured, goal-less tinkering—from Claude Shannon’s juggling and mechanical mice at Bell Labs to the Homebrew Computer Club’s beer-fueled schematics swap—sparked some of the biggest tech breakthroughs.
He argues that “play,” whether dabbling in AI, open networking, or sharing your code just for kicks, isn’t a distraction but the very engine of serious progress and revolution.
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