Dealers of Lightning

The story of the legendary Xerox PARC -- where eccentric young inventors were brought together by Xerox Corp. at a facility in Palo Alto, CA, during the Ô70s and Ô80s. This extraordinary group brought about a technological revolution that would change the world. Takes the reader on a journey from PARC's beginnings at the edge of Stanford Univ. to its triumph as a hothouse of ideas that spawned not only the first personal computer, but the windows-style graphical user interface, the laser printer, the indispensable technology of the Internet, and more. Details the frustration of the original PARC scientists, many of whom would go on to build their fortunes upon the very ideas Xerox discarded.