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A comment on Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation (2011).

Re:Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about in... by nickbauman on Sunday February 01, 2015 @12:48AM (#8979295)
There's a big difference between invention and innovation. Both are important, but we do less and less of the former. The idea of a mouse before PARC must have seemed a little crazy, whereas the idea of the iPhone before 2008 seems a little inevitable.

Alan Kay's recent talk "The Future Doesn't Have To Be Incremental" goes over this yin and yang of the two 'i' words of our industry with authority. Worth a watch.

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Re:Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about in... by jacquesm on Sunday February 01, 2015 @07:46AM (#8979737)
The mouse was already in 'the mother of all demos'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

31:54

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Re:Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about in... by sebastianconcpt on Sunday February 01, 2015 @08:12AM (#8979786)
We do less and less of the former because "smart" money follows innovation and not invention.
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