Spreadsheets serve as weapons of mass cost destruction (Guardian Unlimited)

Spreadsheets serve as weapons of mass cost destruction (Guardian Unlimited)

In the summer of 1978, a Harvard student named Dan Bricklin was cycling along a path in Martha's Vineyard, when he had a big idea. As an MBA student, he was being taught to do financial planning using a large sheet of paper ruled into a grid pattern. One entered numbers corresponding to sales, costs, revenues and so on, into cells on the grid, did some calculations and entered the result in ...

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