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

Cars That Think

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Batteries not ready. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries.

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