In 1970, the photocopier company Xerox opened a research lab in Palo Alto called PARC. Over the next eleven years, a few dozen researchers there built the graphical user interface, the laser printer, Ethernet, the WYSIWYG word processor, and the first computer designed around windows, icons, and a mouse. Almost none of it ever shipped as a Xerox product.

Xerox PARC was possibly most productive corporate research lab in history. The visionaries who staffed it and the inventions that walked out the door, had the company that watch Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and 3Com build a trillion-dollar industry on the foundations PARC had laid.

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