Dream Machine by M Waldrop

Dream Machine by M Waldrop

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A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" transformed the course of modern science and led to the development of the personal computer. Reprint.

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Dream Machine by M Waldrop

A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" transformed the course of modern science and led to the development of the personal computer. Reprint.
M. Mitchell Waldrop has his doctorate in elementary particle physics and is the author of Man-Made Minds. He spent ten years as a senior writer for Science magazine, where he is now a contributing correspondent.
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ISBN 13 9780142001356
ISBN 10 014200135X
Title Dream Machine
Author M Waldrop
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2002-08-27
Number of pages 502
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