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Republished 15 years later with a new afterword by the author, the book is an excellent slice of "retrospective futurism", showing how we got to our largely-wired world and where we might find ourselves in the future, as well as exploring some might-have-been scenarios that still seemed likely in the 80s. Starting with engaging portraits of such important thinkers as Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Jon von Neumann, Rheingold swiftly and seamlessly moves into more current affairs, checking out the men and women behind Xerox PARC, ARPANET, Apple, Microsoft and other cornerstones of today's environment.
Some of the interviewees are less well-known than they should be--Doug Englebart's ideas have found but a pale reflection in the immensely popular World Wide Web, for example--but all have made important contributions to personal computing and networking. Some of the ideas herein, like expert systems, have foundered somewhat from their creators' original intentions, but the creativity and determination to follow through regardless is inspiring.
Rheingold is adept at showing us how technology can help us shape a better human destiny; Tools for Thought reminds us that today's wild ideas are what bring tomorrow's radical change. --Rob Lightner, Amazon.com
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South of San Francisco and north of Silicon Valley, near the place where the pines on the horizon give way to live oaks and radiotelescopes, an unlikely subculture has been creating a new medium for human thought. Read the first page
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