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- catalog abstract ""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-old civilian is already planning the revolution that will change forever the way computers are perceived. Somehow, the occupant of that office - a former MIT psychologist named J.C.R. Licklider - has seen a future in which computers will empower individuals, instead of forcing them into rigid conformity. He is almost alone in his conviction that computers can become not just superfast calculating machines but joyful machines: tools that will serve as new media of expression, inspirations to creativity, and gateways to a vast world of on line information. And now he is determined to use the Pentagon's money to make that vision a reality."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12219070.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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-old civilian is already planning the revolution that will change forever the way computers are perceived. Somehow, the occupant of that office - a former MIT psychologist named J.C.R. Licklider - has seen a future in which computers will empower individuals, instead of forcing them into rigid conformity. He is almost alone in his conviction that computers can become not just superfast calculating machines but joyful machines: tools that will serve as new media of expression, inspirations to creativity, and gateways to a vast world of on line information. And now he is determined to use the Pentagon's money to make that vision a reality."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. [476]-489) and index.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. Missouri boys -- ch. 2. The last transition -- ch. 3. New kinds of people -- ch. 4. The freedom to make mistakes -- ch. 5. The tale of the fig tree and the wasp -- ch. 6. The phenomena surrounding computers -- ch. 7. The intergalactic network -- ch. 8. Living in the future -- ch. 9. Lick's kids.".
- catalog extent "502 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dream machine.".
- catalog identifier "0670899763 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dream machine.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Viking,".
- catalog relation "Dream machine.".
- catalog subject "004.16/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Licklider, J. C. R.".
- catalog subject "Microcomputers History.".
- catalog subject "QA76.17 .W35 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. Missouri boys -- ch. 2. The last transition -- ch. 3. New kinds of people -- ch. 4. The freedom to make mistakes -- ch. 5. The tale of the fig tree and the wasp -- ch. 6. The phenomena surrounding computers -- ch. 7. The intergalactic network -- ch. 8. Living in the future -- ch. 9. Lick's kids.".
- catalog title "The dream machine : J.C.R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal / M. Mitchell Waldrop.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".