The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal [Paperback ed.] 014200135X, 9780142001356

A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionar

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