Xerox is incidentally a really good example, because precisely nobody ended up using the desktop experience Xerox made. They ended up using the desktop experience that Microsoft and Apple made and shipped while Xerox the actual company faded and memory of those original parc research teams faded into obscurity.
This is what I keep saying, and it feels like I'm taking crazy pills here!
Is nobody else astounded by this?
The thing only nerds know about that wasn’t in the news every day? Not the same thing.