Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which from 1970–1985 produced the graphical user interface, Ethernet, laser printing, object-oriented programming, and the modern PC concept — inventions Xerox largely failed to commercialize.
Invented the personal computing paradigm — the GUI, the mouse, the networked workstation, the laser printer — in a single concentrated research environment, becoming the defining case study in how great technology can be created but value destroyed through commercialization failure.
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