Jobs, Xerox PARC and the Creation Myth - Gladwell
Here’s a great long-form article about the role of Xerox PARC in the creation of the Macintosh by Malcolm Gladwell.
http://www.gladwell.com/2011/2011_05_16_a_creationmyth.html
What strikes me most is how it’s extremely rare for a company to be everything – a hotbed of research, a strong product commercializer, etc. And like the Everything’s a Remix videos say, well, everything’s a remix and we step forward, one idea to the next. It’s not copying (those that occurs in different places), it’s invention from the inspiration of what exists now.
