Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Tools for Thought n a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay.
Full description- Publisher: MIT Press
- Published: 01 June 2000
- Format: Paperback 360 pages
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- Categories: Social Forecasting, Future Studies | Science: General Issues | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | Technology: General Issues | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing | Computer Science | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780262681155 ISBN 10: 0262681153
- Sales rank: 840,662
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Full description for Tools for Thought
The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. Taking the reader step by step from nineteenth-century mathematics to contemporary computing, he introduces a fascinating collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries.The book was originally published in 1985, and Rheingold's attempt to envision computing in the 1990s turns out to have been remarkably prescient. This edition contains an afterword, in which Rheingold interviews some of the pioneers discussed in the book. As an exercise in what he calls "retrospective futurism," Rheingold also looks back at how he looked forward.
