Abstract
The creation story of Twitter was an example of the first, and it illustrated that the story of computing was the story of humanity, filled with drama, hubris, passion, betrayal, and serendipity. Twitter was founded by Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass. Ray Kurzweil was not the first to tell this story. John von Neuman used the term several decades before when he spoke of the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gave the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs could continue.