Title: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 014200135X
ISBN 13: 9780142001356
Binding: paperback
Condition: New

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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.

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M. Mitchell Waldrop, formerly a science writer at Science magazine, is the author of Complexity and Man-Made Minds.

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