附註:Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet -- The First Programmer Was a Lady -- The First Hacker and His Imaginary Machine -- Johnny Builds Bombs and Johnny Builds Brains -- Ex-Prodigies and Antiaircraft Guns -- Inside Information -- Machines to Think With -- Witness to Software History: The Mascot of Project MAC -- The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker -- The New Old Boys from the ARPAnet -- The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier -- Brenda and the Future Squad -- Knowledge Engineers and Epistemological Entrepreneurs -- Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond.
摘要:Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of "retrospective futurism" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. -- Provided by publisher
