Posted by 101livescan on 9/10/13 10:31am
Msg #483944
No Better Time...than now!
Time to seize the moment, the day. Life is short. Be proactive. We have many challenges ahead.
There is a book about the first man who died in the 911 Tragedy, Danny Lewin. He is most known for making the internet faster, for the entire world! Danny was only 31 when he died at the hands of a terrorist on AA Flight 11, the first plane to hit the WTC tower no. one.
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor.
Danny Lewin’s brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin’s vision—while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on Akamai—and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin—remained up and running.
Get the book today if you can. You can "KINDLE" it.
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