Who’s that? From the Internet Hall of Fame: The book is about the life and impact of JCR Licklider. I think Licklider has more claim than any other single person to being the individual causally responsible for its creation. So, thanks Stripe Press for reprinting the book, thanks to the Sloane Foundation for funding it, and thanks to Mitchell Waldrop for researching and writing it over 9 years! I think we could have lost some key stories about the creation of many precursors to the Internet without it. The book was out of print, so Stripe Press started republishing it, and thanks to them we have this gem in a beautiful hardcover format. Patrick bought it on Amazon, loved it so much that he started gifting it to a bunch of people and exhausting Amazon’s supply. Patrick was recommended the book by Alan Kay who said it was one of the rare books that got the history of Xerox PARC right. He was talking about how the tech industry doesn’t look back much on its history, it mostly looks forward, which is both a positive and a negative. Patrick Collison spoke about this book on a podcast I listened to, I forget which one. The Dream Machine, by Mitchell Waldrop Thank you Patrick Collison
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