Dean’s chat with Mark Bernstein, director of PARC, on how not to fumble the future

Dean’s chat with Mark Bernstein, director of PARC, on how not to fumble the future

Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center showed off 10 fascinating projects this week, everything from eraseable paper to solid-ink printers, but such moments always raise the specter of the past.

Xerox famously failed in the 1970s to commercialize the personal computer, instead letting others, such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, lead the way.

I met with Mark Bernstein, the director of PARC this week as Xerox showed off the fruits of its latest research. In our talk (see audio… Continue Reading