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Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere

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a start-up in Los Angeles, have begun shipping portable plug-and-play, cabinet-based holoportal systems the size of a telephone booth. She and others who took part in the presentation appeared extraordinarily real. Now, sans the glasses, two venture-backed companies are impressing viewers with ostensibly similar technologies.

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

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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. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s.

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