Remember that back in the time of PARC, to do that kind of research, you needed a computer the size of a small house. With utility computing we've dropped the cost to less than one server and based on usage.
Remember as well that PARC was essentially just a few people: Starkweather (laser printer), Metcalfe (ethernet) and Kay (PC, GUI, Smalltalk, etc).
So doing the math, it seems that today's analog of PARC is a single woman in Senegal or a couple of guys in Poland. It could be anywhere, and that's pretty exciting!
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Remember that back in the time of PARC, to do that kind of research, you needed a computer the size of a small house. With utility computing we've dropped the cost to less than one server and based on usage.
Remember as well that PARC was essentially just a few people: Starkweather (laser printer), Metcalfe (ethernet) and Kay (PC, GUI, Smalltalk, etc).
So doing the math, it seems that today's analog of PARC is a single woman in Senegal or a couple of guys in Poland. It could be anywhere, and that's pretty exciting!
Microsoft Research (research.microsoft.com)
Viewpoints Research (vpri.org)