The Power of Play: Rob Conery at NDC Porto 2025
Rob Conery argues that some of tech’s biggest leaps came not from rigid plans but from pure, unstructured fun—think Claude Shannon’s juggling experiments at Bell Labs, the Homebrew Computer Club trading schematics over beers, or early open-source pioneers tinkering “just for kicks.” He’ll show how goofing off with bold ideas—AI, open networking or publicly shared code—isn’t a waste of time but the real engine of innovation.
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