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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age Paperback - 2000
by Michael A. Hiltzik
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a riveting, true story of an extraordinary group of inventors who brought about a technological revolution that would change the world.
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In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser printer, and the graphical interface (one of the main precursors of the Internet), only to see these breakthroughs rejected by the corporation. Yet, instead of giving up, these determined inventors turned their ideas into empires that radically altered contemporary life and changed the world.Based on extensive interviews with the scientists, engineers, administrators, and executives who lived the story, this riveting chronicle details PARC's humble beginnings through its triumph as a hothouse for ideas, and shows why Xerox was never able to grasp, and ultimately exploit, the cutting-edge innovations PARC delivered. Dealers of Lightning offers an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions, and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistoiy--and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness.
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- Title Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Author Michael A. Hiltzik
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition 1st
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Business, New York
- Date 2000-04-05
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780887309892 / 0887309895
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.38 x 1.2 in (20.42 x 13.67 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Xerox Corporation - History, Computer science - Research - California -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-47043
- Dewey Decimal Code 004.072
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- Business Week, 07/03/2000, Page 17
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