Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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AdmiralAsshat on hackernews1d
Good book on the subject that I recently finished reading:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0029PBVCA
Does a pretty good job at running through PARC's founding and some of the many reasons why none of its amazing technology took off (Spoilers: it wasn't always Xerox interfering!).