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Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.

Pattern Breakers

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Zirok Park, Paloalto

In the early seventies zirok was a monopoly making copiers, and it was a hot stuff company with huge gross margins. And so they could afford to have a paloalta research center. They recruited from the arpa research community. The goal of the computer science department was to work on the paperless office of the future. Course, we immediately built the world's first lazer printer and produced more paper than ever before.

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