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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. Battery technology currently requires lithium and other rare earth metals, which must be mined. Fossil fuels are expensive and environmentally destructive.

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

Cars That Think

The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. It had a dynamic character generator that would create new patterns for characters and graphics as they came in. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.”

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