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In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of the New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is just an exciting trip of rational development. While in the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Company introduced together a mind-trust of engineering geniuses, a team of pc eccentrics dubbed PARC. This amazing team produced many amazing improvements that induced a technical innovation, such as the first pc, the laser printer, and the visual software (among the primary precursors of the Web), simply to observe these discoveries declined from the company. However, in the place of quitting, these established creators turned their ideas into powers that significantly modified modern existence and transformed the world.Based on intensive interviews with all the researchers, technicians, directors, and professionals who lived the story, this captivating share particulars PARCis simple origins through its success like a hothouse for ideas, and demonstrates why Xerox was never in a position to understand, and eventually manipulate, the cutting edge improvements PARC shipped.