Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (1985)
First published in 1985?<p>For more reading:<p><i>Fumbling the Future</i>: not all that good; reads like a B-school case study<p><i>Dealers of Lightning</i>: excellent history<p><i>Inventing the Future</i> (by me!): what it was actually like to be there in the trenches. Fictionalized, but all facts are accurate. Foreword by David C. Smith, the guy who invented icons. That's his son on the cover, playing MazeWar on an Alto.