

Dealers of Lightning
Author: Michael A. Hiltzik
Narrator: Forrest Sawyer
Abridged: 5 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/13/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Marketing
Author: Michael A. Hiltzik
Narrator: Forrest Sawyer
Abridged: 5 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/13/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Marketing
Michael A. Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times. In 2004 he won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in American financial journalism. Hiltzik is the author of Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age and A Death in Kenya. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons.
Riveting read. Not as technical as I'd like - though I have yet to read any computer book that is. Mostly it's straight up porn for anyone who loves working with computers. PARC was one hell of a lab back in the day. The most interesting part about this is seeing what really happened with Xerox and......more
Actual Rating: 2.5 Stars "This did not mean that great discoveries, even surprising ones, will not be made here and there by researchers working for corporations. It simply means that a certain quality once possessed by PARC in its extraordinary early years seems to have departed from the world of s......more
I'm sceptical of the genius narrative. In my mind, there are always a few people with irrational self-confidence - and of course a couple happen to succeed. Cue mythmaking, fawning biographies and countless would-be clones... Relatedly, I can feel some sympathy for the executives at Xerox. The standa......more
Really the Grand Canyon of books. Everyone knows that the Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground but when you go see it your like "DAMN that's a big hole in the ground. Same thing with this book. The myth is that xerox parc invented most modern software but when you read this book your like "DAMN......more