Steve Jobs and Xerox: The Truth About Innovation
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We recently wrote that the next big innovation has already been discovered. In fact, it's already 10 or 20 years old. Our job as innovators is to improve the existing old technology into the next big thing. This is the process of innovation: take something that has been discovered and improve it.
The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/nucifera-noten on 2024-10-05 21:16:41.

Original Title: TIL that in 1979, Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC and was inspired by their uncommercialized GUI and mouse, leading to the creation of the Apple Macintosh; Xerox started to focus on marketing their copy machines, skeptical about the profitability of computers.