The Dream Machine
- ISBN:
- 9781732265110
- Duration:
- 39 days
- Authors:
- M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Pages:
- 512
- Rating:
- ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
| date started | date finished | duration | locations |
|---|
| 2020-04-15 | 2020-05-24 | 39 | San Francisco |
review
Incredible book.
Basically tells the whole history of computing starting from pre-WWII years, through John von Neumann and Alan Turning years, invention of LISP, Arpanet, Xerox PARC, TCP/IP, Unix and interactive computing and finally internet.
It just connects all the great people together: Norbert Wiener, von Neumann, Noam Chomsky, JFK, Alan Kay, Vint Cerf, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Steve Jobs, Al Gore. And all connected via work of J. C. R. Licklider.