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2authors: M. Mitchell Waldrop
3isbn: "9781732265110"
4pages: "512"
5rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
6date_started: 2020-04-15
7date_finished: 2020-05-24
8locations: San Francisco
9date: 2020-05-24
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11
12# The Dream Machine
13
14Incredible book.
15
16Basically tells the whole history of computing starting from pre-WWII years, through John von Neumann and Alan Turning years, invention of LISP, Arpanet, Xerox PARC, TCP/IP, Unix and interactive computing and finally internet.
17
18It just connects all the great people together: Norbert Wiener, von Neumann, Noam Chomsky, JFK, Alan Kay, Vint Cerf, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Steve Jobs, Al Gore. And all connected via work of J. C. R. Licklider.