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Endeavors and not just number-crunching business things. >> is there anything you'd like to see? >> we'd love to have it in a book right now, you know, about this size, but that's technically impossible. >> steve's like, i want to make a friendly computer, a computer that comes from a different kind of place, that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. >> this is an experimental office system of the xerox research center in palo alto, california. >> flowers, my anniversary. i forgot. >> xerox in the 1980s was one of the most exciting companies in a...

Are going to take technology to this point. it's much more chaotic. things rise, bubble and fall back. it is a confluence of developments that are all happening at the same time. >> small and portable are the watch words for the '90s for manufacturers showing their wares in chicago this week. sony has camcorder that fits into your hand and a combination tv/vcr that fits into your purse or briefcase. >> if you have one of these and one of these but you don't have one of these you are missing half the fun of owning a computer. this is a modem, with it you can turn your computer into a window on ...

>> it gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park and the university. that was a hell of powerful combination. >> there were these two cultures engineered with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> there was a lot of counter culture people. so you had cheap semi-conductors. people that would look at things differently than what the conventional person was, and that's what the technology needed then. >> one...

If all goes according to plan, columbia, this nation's first space shuttle will fly like a skylark next march. if the shuttle program works the way it's designed to, it will be a technological marvel like that of the moon. >> a space shuttle. new systems, new technology. fly by wire system. you don't have pulleys and cables, all done by electronics, all by commands coming through a computer. >> built as the world's first reusable spaceship, carrying satellites and scientists. >> the most important thing was the digital revolution of faster, more powerful computers with complex software. >> c...