The Dream Machine

J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

Paperback, 512 pages

English language

Published Aug. 27, 2002 by Penguin Books.

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I love reading about the early days of computing, and this book pulled several of the stories I was familiar with (ARPA, Xerox PARC, Bell Labs) and wove them into a single thread. The book loosely follows the career of JCR Licklider (Lick) and the role he played in promoting, funding, inventing, and evangelizing modern computing.