IBM: A Special Company - Think 75th Anniversary Issue in Slipcase [September 1989]

Armonk, New York: International Business Machines Corporation, 1989. Copyright 1989 by International Business Machines. Rare first and only printing. Giant folio 9 1/4" x 13 1/4" design. White matte wraps, big blue cover titles with blind-stamped 75 at center, light shelf wear. Heavy stock coated pages, near fine. Saddle-stitch bind, fine. Profusely illustrated with classic, modern and contemporary popular art, pre-programming, culture and designs. Three-page fold-out chart for past and present advancement and projections for humanity and technology. Side-bars and snippets of note throughout allow for entertaining incorporation. Intriguing and revelatory volume published by IBM. History of technology, computing and a look into the things to come... Human-like handwritten notes, illustration and profuse color and b&w imagery throughout. Retains hard slipcase in navy with gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear. An homage to the creativity and accomplishments of International Business Machines Corp. throughout its history; presented as an optimistic projection of the future with technology. All from an easily understood and digestible perspective of the late 1980's with personal computers available for all to afford and incorporate. This from the efficient and no-nonsense progenitor international business machines. Suffuse with all the cheer and compassion of a robot assembly line of automatons numbering the individuals into order. Contents: "Herbert George Wells - The infinite-horizon...; Introduction - The future ain't what it used to be; The courage of their predictions; Greatest daydreamer of them all; Futurism, from the beginning...; An Englishman possessed - by computers; Three prophets of science fiction; The new shape of sci-fi; New tools of futurism; The business of dreaming; Prognosticators: A scorecard; Never! Well, maybe never; Brave new words; What's next?; Bibliography; A future by design; and, Acknowledgments". Printed in the U.S.A. Insured post.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Cadge, William (Art Director). Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.