It is a talk I presented at the Valley Rain book club. The content is derived from the book Business Adventures by John Brooks.

1. Poem
As the cat
climbed over
the top of
the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot
carefully
then the hind
stepped down
into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot
William Carlos Williams

2. 诗
当猫
爬上
果酱橱
顶
先是右
前足
小心翼翼
接着后足
踩落
到空
花盆的
陷阱里
威廉斯

3. C U R I O S I T Y

4. X E R O X X E R O X X E R O X X E R O X

5. O F F S E T D U P L I C AT O R

6. M I M E O G R A P H

7. T H E R M O FA X

9. C R E AT I V I T Y

10. C H E S T E R C A R L S O N
1 9 0 6 – 1 9 6 8

11. – H A R O L D C L A R K
“Xerography had practically no foundation in
previous scientific work.
Chet put together a rather odd lot of
phenomena, each of which was obscure in itself
and none of which had previously been related
in anyone’s thinking.
The result was the biggest thing in imaging
since the coming of photography itself.”

12. X E R O G R A P H Y

13. X E R O G R A P H I C C O P Y # 1
1 9 3 8

14. – H A R O L D C L A R K
“The development of xerography
was largely empirical.
We were trained scientists,
not Yankee tinkers,
but we struck a balance between
Yankee tinkering and scientific inquiry.”

15. B I R T H

16. # B I L . C O P I E S I N U . S . / Y E A R
3.5
7
10.5
14
1950s 1964 1966
X E R O X

18. 9 1 4

20. S O C I A L I M PA C T S

21. B U I LT T O L A S T

22. – J O S E P H C . W I L S O N , F O U N D E R O F X E R O X
“To set high goals,
to have almost unattainable aspirations,
to imbue people with the belief that they
can be achieved
—these are as important as the balance
sheet, perhaps more so.”

23. – P E T E R M C C O L O U G H
“dream of a system whereby you’d write
stuff in Connecticut and within hours reprint
it in classrooms all over the country.
The danger in ingenious hardware is that it
distracts attention from education.
What good is a wonderful machine if you
don’t know what to put on it?”

24. M O N O P O LY
I N N O VAT I O N
C U LT U R E

25. Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC)

26. • Laser printers
• Editor (MS Word)
• PostScript (PDF)
• Ethernet (Internet)
• Smalltalk (C++, Java)
• Ubiquitous computing
(wearable, IoT)
• Handheld (smart phone)
• GUI (Windows, OSX)
• Windowing
• Menu
• Copy-n-paste
• Icons
• Fonts
• Folders
• Mouse

30. 山路
我不愿站在山顶俯视，
因为那儿离悬崖不远。
我宁可从山脚开始，
因为那儿只有往高处走的路。
我的理想是爬一座没有尽头的山，
与同道人分享路边的梅花冰激淋与雪莲巧克力。
那些神圣的花儿，
待我们每个人都一样。
未寒蛋