The Dream Machine

Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0670899763
Publisher: Viking Adult

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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 of expression, a joyful inspiration to creativity, and a gateway to a vast on-line world of information. And now he was determined to use the Pentagon's money to make it all happen.

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