“Inventing the Future” with John Buck

Subtitle: Remembering the Apple Advanced Technology Group

John Buck published a book covering the "Apple Technology Group," a division within Apple that operated back in the 1980s and 1990s and experimented with many forward-looking bits of technology that we take for granted today.

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John Buck

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