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Celebrating Colossus: Teamwork and Lifelong Learning in Innovation
10/18/2025
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- Andrew Smith highlights Tommy Flowers' role in delivering Colossus to Bletchley Park in 1944, the first digital programmable computer.
- The article overlooks the teamwork of codebreakers Jack Good and Donald Michie, who enhanced Colossus, demonstrating that innovation relies on collaboration across disciplines.
- Prof. Jonathan Michie of the University of Oxford argues for broad-based, lifelong learning to prepare people to adapt to new technologies.
