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In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay.

The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. Taking the reader step by step from nineteenth-century mathematics to contemporary computing, he introduces a fascinating collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries.

The book was originally published in 1985, and Rheingold's attempt to envision computing in the 1990s turns out to have been remarkably prescient. This edition contains an afterword, in which Rheingold interviews some of the pioneers discussed in the book. As an exercise in what he calls "retrospective futurism," Rheingold also looks back at how he looked forward.

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  • Title Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
  • Author Howard Rheingold
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2 Rev Sub
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-04-13
  • ISBN 9780262681155 / 0262681153
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.04 x 0.89 in (22.91 x 15.34 x 2.26 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Microcomputers - History, Technological innovations - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99087051
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

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  • Library Journal, 07/01/2000, Page 134

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Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author of Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (both published by the MIT Press), and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.
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