We've re-thought everything - from the user interface to the underlying technology - to create the product that we want to use to get work done every day. Quip is our perspective on how modern, mobile documents should work. When we decided to build Quip, it was based on the premise that the shift to tablets and phones is so fundamental and so all-encompassing that it dwarfs the sum of all of these features in importance. The features these products have accrued over thirty years have made it difficult for most of us to switch to new products, but they have also made it almost impossible for the products to truly change. We still use the same metaphors and the same workflow that we used when shoulder pads and leg warmers were cool. With the exception of some additional color and and a stack of toolbars at the top of the screen, it doesn't look different from the software that probably came bundled with your current laptop. Here's one of the first graphical word processors ever created, MacWrite, released with the original Macintosh in 1984: Most people in the developing world will access the Internet for the first time through a mobile, touch-screen device without ever touching a PC.ĭespite the magnitude of this shift, the software that we use to get work done has not evolved over the past thirty years. Companies built on the PC ecosystem are desperately trying to find an identity in this new world, and many of them won't succeed. To call this shift disruptive is understating its impact on our industry and the world. Depending on where you live, this shift may have already happened - when you walk into an airport anywhere around the Bay Area, there is barely a laptop in sight amidst a sea of iPads and phones. Smartphone sales have already overtaken PC sales, and tablet sales are predicted to pass PCs this year. Since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, phones and tablets have transformed the way we interact with technology and each other. If you haven't already, download Quip to try it out. Quip is a modern word processor that enables you to create beautiful documents on any device - phones, tablets and the desktop. Print.Today, we are extremely excited to launch Quip. " Accounting in the King's Storehouse: The Inkawasi Khipu Archive." Latin American Antiquity 26.4 (2015): 512-29. " From Middle Horizon Cord-Keeping to the Rise of Inka Khipus in the Central Andes." Antiquity 88.339 (2014): 205-21. "Recovering Andean Historical Memory and Mathematics." Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática 8.1 (2015): 67-86. Tun, Molly, and Miguel Angel Diaz Sotelo." The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean Cord Notation) as Artifact." Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium. " An Ethnomathematics Exercise for Analyzing a Khipu Sample from Pachacamac (Perú)." Revista Latinoamericana de Ethnomatemática 5.1 (2012): 62-88. "The Khipu-Based Numeration System." ArcXiv arXiv:1405.6093 (2014). " Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru." Ethnohistory 65.1 (2018): 1-23. "Encoding Authority: Navigating the Uses of Khipu in Colonial Peru." Traversea 3 (2013). " Ply, Markedness, and Redundancy: New Evidence for How Andean Quipus Encoded Information." American Anthropologist 116.3 (2014): 643-48. These are known both from the archaeological record and from historical reports-hundreds are in museums around the world, with data on 450 of them residing in the Khipu Database Project at Harvard University. The best-known and largest number of surviving quipus are dated to the Inca period (1450-Spanish conquest in 1532). The competing and contemporary Tiwanaku state also had a cord device called a chino, but little information is available about its technology or characteristics to date. The strongest evidence for the pre-Inca use of quipu record keeping is from the Middle Horizon Wari (or Huari) empire, an early urban and perhaps state level Andean society centered at the capital city of Huari, Peru. Further information has not been published to date, and the interpretation of this as a quipu is somewhat controversial. In 2005, researchers reported a collection of strings twisted around small sticks from a context dated to approximately 4,000-4,500 years ago. The oldest possible quipu comes from the Caral-Supe civilization, a preceramic (Archaic) culture in South America made up of at least 18 villages and enormous pyramidal architecture. Caral-Supe culture (possible, ca 2500 BC).
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