M. Mitchell Waldrop, "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0670899763, 014200135X | 528 pages | EPUB | 1.2 MB
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0670899763, 014200135X | 528 pages | EPUB | 1.2 MB
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" transformed the course of modern science and led to the development of the personal computer. Reprint.