At the center the room, a culturally diverse group of children sit around a table on rainbow-colored beanbag chairs, flitting through the new app.

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Quiet areas with beanbag chairs and coloring books, staffed by autism experts, also will be created inside the theater for those who might feel overwhelmed.

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At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.

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As billionaires and visionaries take their seats at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach (Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and the Google guys are among the 1, 500 regulars there), the Palm Springs crowd lounges on couches, beanbag chairs, and even at poolside: The live feed plays in the cabanas, too.

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