Rob Conery’s NDC Porto 2025 keynote dives into the magic of play—those no-strings-attached, weekend tinker-sessions that have sparked some of tech’s biggest leaps. From Claude Shannon’s juggling and mechanical mice at Bell Labs to the Homebrew Computer Club’s beer-fueled schematic swaps, unstructured curiosity has been the secret sauce behind groundbreaking inventions.
By tracing this playful thread through computing history, Conery shows that goofing off with wild ideas—whether it’s AI experiments, open networking, or sharing your code in public—isn’t a distraction from serious work, it’s the very heart of serious innovation.
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