Tools For Thought: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.htmlBy Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk, Atari. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold
April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is
, including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr.
The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as
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