Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer age [Audiobook] download free by Michael A Hiltzik
- Listen audiobook: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer age
- Author: Michael A Hiltzik
- Release date: 2000/11/14
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780887309892
- Rating: 8.91 of 10
- Votes: 407
- Review by: Shepard Montanez
- Review rating: 8.64 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 5H52M54S in 256 kbps (96 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, AC3, MPEG4, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WAV (compression ARC, RAR, ISO, ZIP, LHA, CAB)
- Total pages original book: 480
- Includes a PDF summary of 52 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 38M17S (10.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser printer, and the graphical interface (one of the main precursors of the Internet), only to see these breakthroughs rejected by the corporation. Yet, instead of giving up, these determined inventors turned their ideas into empires that radically altered contemporary life and changed the world.Based on extensive interviews with the scientists, engineers, administrators, and executives who lived the story, this riveting chronicle details PARC's humble beginnings through its triumph as a hothouse for ideas, and shows why Xerox was never able to grasp, and ultimately exploit, the cutting-edge innovations PARC delivered. Dealers of Lightning offers an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions, and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistoiy-and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Business & Management, Market Research, Computer Science, History Of Engineering & Technology, Industry & Industrial Studies, Computing: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 20.34 USD
- Dimensions: 137x204x30mm
- Weight: 422g
- Printed by: HarperBusiness
- Published in: New York, United States
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