I don't know how productive this comment will be but thank you for, "getting it." The real, "golden egg" at PARC was the research group itself. It might still b

I don't know how productive this comment will be but thank you for, "getting it." The real, "golden egg" at PARC was the research group itself. It might still be possible to build groups like this again; it's also possible that the cultural moment has passed. I think sans Bret Victor and a few outliers there isn't really anyone to replace people like Bill English, Alan Kay, or the great Dan Ingalls. Hopefully I'm wrong about that. I think part of what makes it, "very hard to imagine" is that in some sense we would need another, "post-war economic miracle" to get another bright, well educated generation ready to be the next Kay/Sutherland/Engelbart/ect and that seems really far off if that's something that's going to come out of the United States again considering the dismal culture of research here. I think the next Xerox PARC metaphorically will come out of a progressive country in Western/Northern Europe, India, or somewhere connected to the ascending Global South. Imagine Xerox Amsterdam Research Center or the like. Smart people and legal pot shops sounds might be a viable way forward. Time will tell. ...and remember the computer revolution hasn't happened yet!