false 722412 2 While it's true that no one person's vision encompassed all of what we now consider personal computing, we can't help but focus on individual effort as we try to understand how we got here. Science writer M. Mitchell Waldrop carefully balances this hero culture with a historian's mania for completeness in <I>The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal</I>.<p>"Lick," as his students and colleagues called him, was deeply involved in guiding the evolution of personal and networked computing from the 1950s through the 1980s, after leaving a career in cognitive psychology. Waldrop captures his spirit vividly--contrary to our stereotypical view of computer scientists, Licklider was profoundly interested in his fellow humans, and this interest helped him lead the design of technology adapted to human needs.<p>Waldrop interviewed dozens of contemporaries and examined reams of notes and primary sources to compose this massive biography of influence that stretches from MIT to the Pentagon to Xerox PARC and far beyond. If it sometimes seems that Licklider was a little too well beloved, especially in comparison to some of the more colorful figures in computing's recent history, it is worth remembering that his patience and humility were the very qualities that helped deliver the home-computing revolution we take for granted today. If we had to choose just one 20th-century computer pioneer that we couldn't do without, it would have to be the man behind the Dream Machine. <I>--Rob Lightner</I> 708650 2001 The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal total:15|5:7|4:6|3:1|2:1| 15 64 35 0 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 18:32:52 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 18:32:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 01:28:17 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 01:28:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 12:32:19 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 12:32:19 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 16:58:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 16:58:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 20 15:10:49 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:10:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 13 22:06:02 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 22:06:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 03 07:56:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 07:56:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 25 18:08:42 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 18:08:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 22 07:04:28 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 07:04:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 11 11:20:46 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 11:20:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 10:00:13 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 10:00:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 20:25:26 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 20:25:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 02 06:13:26 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 06:13:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 19:03:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 19:03:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 11:53:55 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:53:55 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 20:13:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 20:13:00 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Dec 19 10:59:51 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 10:59:51 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Oct 03 10:10:04 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 10:10:04 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Sep 23 08:32:36 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 08:32:36 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 14 06:08:05 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 06:08:05 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=722412