The Dream Machine
by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The story of J.C.R. Licklider and the vision of interactive, networked computing that led to ARPANET and the personal computer. Deep and rewarding history.
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- Funding visionaries produces revolutions.
- Human-computer symbiosis was the goal.
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The internet's intellectual origin.
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