| name | value |
| authors | M. Mitchell Waldrop |
| isbn | 9781732265110 |
| pages | 512 |
| rating | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| date started | 2020-04-15 |
| date finished | 2020-05-24 |
| locations | San Francisco |
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.