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Aug 3Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

It is interesting to think about some of the most brilliant minds and their ability to see clearly way into the future while all about them massive disruptive change is occurring at the rapid rate of fire. (If not faster) Long story short of a similar nature. The founder of International Data Group Patrick McGovern told me, in an interview for a job in his company that one day people would trade food recipes and little children in Appalachia would go to school in distant classrooms using a computer that was basically a pad made of glass and there would be no wires attached to send an impulse, in fact at the time the issues of wireless versus cables to deliver this technology had not even been close to settled. I thought he was crazy, paper was the major medium by which his magazine publishing companies delivered their information, but he saw something the rest or at least most people didn’t see. (this was spring of 1995) John Boyd and a cocktail napkin, thinking out of the box and shifting paradigm’s without saying “the paradigms are shifting.” It is surely a great opportunity when one gets exposed to great thinking. It would be amaximg to be a fly on the wall when a conversation between Alcibiades (Big Al!) and Socrates took place. Similar to lunch with John Boyd no doubt.

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I need to read DuPuy especially on infantry ... any recommendations or links? 🔗

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The best single source is the digital library at the Combined Arms Research Library at Fort Leavenworth. (If you make that journey, be sure to pack drinks, snacks, and a change of socks.)

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Yes… i see what you mean

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