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Severe Tire Damage in Smithsonian Magazine

"PARC employs anthropologists to study the workplace, making the think tank something of a high-tech oddball. So is Mark Weiser. Besides his day job as a Silicon Valley savant,he moonlights drumming for a rock band called Severe Tire Damage. Probably he is rock's smartest drummer. He is ebullient about Severe Tire Damage. He is ebullient about computers. In fact, he is generally ebullient. And so when PARC anthropologists told him that a major flaw of current computers is that they are divorced from their surroundings, he caught the idea's rhythm..."

-- "We're going to have computers coming out of the woodwork", by Richard Wolkomir, Smithsonian Magazine, page 84, September 1994.

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