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To implement a prototype of the future, this works well, but to sell something to consumers you have to implement something "cheap", which Xerox PARC didn't man
by renox 7y ago
To implement a prototype of the future, this works well, but to sell something to consumers you have to implement something "cheap", which Xerox PARC didn't manage to do..
- indigochill 7y agoAnd yet their innovations paved the way towards HCI paradigms we take for granted today. So although they weren't practical when they were invented, I think there's still value to these sorts of labs to continue paving the way for the practical creators of of 2034.
- Lorkki 7y agoThe timeline checks out though. The Macintosh came 12 years after the Alto was conceived, or 16 years after Engelbart's NLS.