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The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Follow Licklider and the researchers who made computers interactive and connected. Waldrop shows how experiments, funding, and rival visions shaped personal computing and the Internet.

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11 parts, about 35 minutes to read.

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Author
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Parts
11 parts
Reading time
about 35 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. Prologue1 min
  2. Missouri boys2 min
  3. The last transition3 min
  4. New kinds of people2 min
  5. The freedom to make mistakes3 min
  6. The tale of the fig tree and the wasp3 min
  7. The phenomena surrounding computers4 min
  8. The intergalactic network5 min
  9. Living in the future4 min
  10. Lick's kids5 min
  11. Addendum: Three documents in their own voices3 min

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