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Dealers of Lightning

by Michael A. Hiltzik

Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC - a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time Michael Hiltzik, a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, reveals in detail the true story of the extraordinary group that aimed to bring about a technological dawn that would change the world - and succeeded. Dealers of Lightning is an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions, and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistory - and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness.

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