I bought this book a month or so ago. It's a good history of the government's role in the development of personal computing and internetworking.

"COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Visionary Architect of the Net
A review by John Naughton

The Dream Machine J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Viking, New York, 2001. $29.95, C$43.99. 512 pp. ISBN 0-670-89976-3.

Waldrop tells the story of the MIT psychologist who inspired and laid the groundwork for the discipline of computer science and the networking and computer technology we now take for granted."

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Review of _The Dream Machine_ in Oct 25 Science