The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

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 a…

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