Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
Shoup stayed at PARC, supported by Kay’s research group, while Smith moved on, armed with a National Education Association grant to do computer art. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Xerox could not afford to have people think they were flakes.”
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