A sprawling history of personal computing through J.C.R. Licklider, the visionary who reimagined computers as tools for human creativity.
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A sprawling history of personal computing through J.C.R. Licklider, the visionary who reimagined computers as tools for human creativity.
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"The year is 1962. More than a decade will pass before personal computers emerge from the garages of Silicon Valley, and a full thirty years before the Internet explosion of the 1990s. The word computer still has an ominous tone, conjuring up the image of a huge, intimidating device hidden away in an overlit, air-conditioned basement, relentlessly processing punch cards for some large institution: them. Yet, sitting in a nondescript office in Robert McNamara's Pentagon, a quiet forty-seven-year-...
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