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Tools For Thought
by
Howard Rheingold
Chapter One
: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
Chapter Two
: The First Programmer Was a Lady
Chapter Three
: The First Hacker and his Imaginary Machine
Chapter Four
: Johnny Builds Bombs and Johnny Builds Brains
Chapter Five
: Ex-Prodigies and Antiaircraft Guns
Chapter Six
: Inside Information
Chapter Seven
: Machines to Think With
Chapter Eight
: Witness to History: The Mascot of Project Mac
Chapter Nine
: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker
Chapter Ten
: The New Old Boys from the ARPAnet
Chapter Eleven
: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier
Chapter Twelve
: Brenda and the Future Squad
Chapter Thirteen
: Knowledge Engineers and Epistemological Entrepreneurs
Chapter Fourteen
: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
Footnotes
Tools for Thought
is an exercise in retrospective futurism; that is, I wrote it in the early 1980s, attempting to look at what the mid 1990s would be like.