Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari
Before Google, Yahoo and even Apple, before the Silicon Valley cliché of informal dress code, skateboards running the corridors and wild creativity became commonplace, one company embodied the digital economy lifestyle and business style: the one firm coming out of the Age of Aquarius was Atari. The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the first and probably biggest boom and bust of the new economy some 20 years before the new economy even existed. Atari was showing that technology is cool, way before the personal computer revolution took place and they were reaching out to an ever-growing audience with something that is still cool today: video games. Atari literally introduced the digital world to the mass consciousness.
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Walter Day
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Nolan Bushnell
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Manny Gerard
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Ray Kassar
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Al Alcorn
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Ralph H. Baer
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Joe Decuir
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David Crane
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Howard Scott Warshaw
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Dennis Koble
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Ed Rotberg
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Dave Rolfe
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Steve Russel
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Chuck Peddle
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Steve Wozniak
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Eugene Jarvis
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Steven Kent
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Chris Kohler
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Minoru Arakawa
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Bil Herd
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