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Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

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    How many of you have used
    an electronic spreadsheet,
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    like Microsoft Excel?
    Very good.
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    Now how many of you have run a business
    with a spreadsheet by hand,
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    like my dad did for his small
    printing business in Philadelphia?
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    A lot less. Well, that's the way
    it was done for hundreds of years.
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    In early 1978, I started working
    on an idea that eventually became VisiCalc.
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    And the next year it shipped
    running on something new
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    called an Apple II Personal Computer.
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    You
Title:
Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
Speaker:
Dan Bricklin
Description:

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
12:00

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