(Read ebook) The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
✿ M. Mitchell Waldrop ✿
| #603297 in Books | Viking Adult | 2001-08 | 2001-08-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.60 x1.60 x6.50l, | File Name: 0670899763 | 528 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Essential reading for anyone interested in the digital world|By Gardner Campbell|Great reporting, and a vivid account of the ideas, people, and aspirations that led to the digital world that surrounds us today. Waldrop tells a gripping story, with human depth. He also understands the complexity and brilliance of the world these giants helped to build.|1 of 1 people found the|.com |While it's true that no one person's vision encompassed all of what we now consider personal computing, we can't help but focus on individual effort as we try to understand how we got here. Science writer M. Mitchell Waldrop carefully balances this he
In 1962, decades before "personal computers" and "Internet" became household words, the revolution that gave rise to both of them was set in motion from a small, nondescript office in the depths of the Pentagon. In an age when the word "computer" still meant a big, ominous mainframe mysteriously processing punch cards, the occupant of that office-an MIT psychologist named J.C.R. Licklider-had somehow seen a future in which computers would become an exciting new medium o...
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