title: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
author:  M. Mitchell Waldrop 
description: While most people may not be familiar with the name J. C. R. Licklider, he was the guiding spirit behind the greatest revolution of the modern era. At a time when most computers were big, ponderous mainframes, he envisioned them as desktop tools that could empower individuals, foster creativity, and allow the sharing of information all over the world. Working from an obscure office in the depths of the Pentagon, he set in motion the forces that could make his vision real. Writing with the same novelistic flair that made his Complexity "the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year" (<i>The Washington Post</i>), Waldrop presents the history of this great enterprise and the first full-scale portrait of the man whose dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" changed the course of science and culture, gave us the modern world of computing, and laid the foundation for the Internet age. <br><br> "Waldrop's account of [Licklider's] and many others' world-transforming contributions is compelling." (John Allen Paulos, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) <br><br> "A masterpiece! A mesmerizing but balanced and comprehensive look at the making of the information revolution." (John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC, and coauthor of <i>The Social Life of Information</i>)
zlib_text: INTERACTIVE
  PROTOTYPING
  AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL COMPUTING USING ARDUINO, GRASSHOPPER, AND FIREFLY
  
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  PREFACE
  In 1991, Mark Weiser published a paper in Scientific American titled, The Computer for the 21st Century, where he 
  predicted that as technology advanced, becoming cheaper, smaller, and more powerful, it would begin to "recede into 
  the background of our lives" - taking a more camouflaged, lifestyle-integrated form.  He called this Ubiquitous Com-
  puting (Ubicomp for short), or 