Audiobook: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik

This book is great! I just finished this audiobook (~6 hours abridged) and it was great. As opposed to my regular listens such as ‘The Ethical Brain’ (my current) or ‘Predictably Irrational’ (my prior) I chose a book which was about the history of everything we know today (namely, the GUI, ethernet, printing, WYSIWYG edition, personal computers, bitmap displays, and affordable computation, just to name a few). All of these were funded by Xerox (of the photocopier fame) whom funded a research center in Palo Alto, PARC, the focus of this book.

This book quickly finished and I was grasped and held in love with all of the mistakes Xerox made, but ended up causing all of what’s happened since the ’70′s to occure.

I can’t recommend this book highly enough, more interesting than the stories of Apple, Microsoft, or IBM, this has to be your next book!