Joel Orr's fascintating keynote Saturday Morning at COFES 2009:<\/p>\n
"Remembering The Future"<\/p>\n
Joel showed some really cool old web pages from 1999. Check out the Internet WayBack Machine at https:\/\/www.archive.org. Search there on https:\/\/joelorr.com. Click on his 1996 webpage and read a little about SolidWorks. Then click on a link there to see the 1996 SolidWorks web page<\/strong><\/span> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19970624174939\/www.solidworks.com\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joel talked about the origins of COFES: he and Brad wanted an "All Hallways" conference (they succeeded!).<\/p>\n Joel went over his career journey. Early computer job at COMPAT working on "data concentrators" (squeeze 96 phone lines into 1). Moved to Nashville job automating mapping, working with M&S Systems that became Intergraph.<\/p>\n Joel proudly notes that he quickly got beyond "real work" and moved into consulting and writing about people doing the "real work".<\/p>\n Interesting factoid: the average age of the engineers in mission control in 1969 when we put a man on the moon: 26 years old<\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\n "Pyramids are places where great things are buried…so are 'pyramidal' business organizations"<\/em><\/p>\n Great talk from a great guy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joel Orr's fascintating keynote Saturday Morning at COFES 2009: "Remembering The Future" Joel showed some really cool old web pages from 1999. Check out the Internet WayBack Machine at https:\/\/www.archive.org. Search there on https:\/\/joelorr.com. Click on his 1996 webpage and<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}