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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Much serious work got done electronically as well: reports, articles, sometimes entire design projects were done through the network. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries. The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short.