“The Trojan room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world’s first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the Trojan Room, within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing a live picture of the state of the coffee pot. The camera was installed on a local network in 1991 using a video capture card on an Acorn Archimedes. Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client software and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server.
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I have worked with engineers and computer scientists of all stripes, and I guarantee that more advancements in technology have been made out of sheer laziness than for any other reason.
I have nothing but respect for people who put that much effort into being lazy.
This is indeed the very essence of engineering. Only we call it “increasing efficiency” and “reducing time spent on menial tasks” and “improving quality of life” which all read better on formal media, though “laziness” is more encompassing and to-the-point.
Lazy people are the best engineers and innovators.
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