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

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Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. But by the early 1980s, other companies were making similar research investments-and bringing the products of that research to the commercial market­place. “We

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