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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
Technology History / Biography
Biography of J.C.R. Licklider, the psychologist-turned-computer-scientist who funded the research at ARPA that became the internet and personal computing. Waldrop shows how Licklider's vision of 'man-computer symbiosis' seeded nearly every institution—MIT, PARC, BBN—that defined the digital age. A case study in how a single well-placed patron with the right ideas can redirect the course of technology.
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Patrick Collison
Flagged green (particularly great) on Collison's shelf; fits his recurring interest in the institutional origins of computing and the role of well-placed patrons in funding transformative research.