Tools For Thought: The People and Ideas of the Next Computer Revolution

By Howard Rheingold

First published by Simon & Schuster, 1985. Copyright Howard Rheingold, 1985. This book is out of print; all rights have reverted to the author.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• 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 Antiarcraft 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 Amplifies
• Chapter Twelve: Brenda and the Future Squad
• Chapter Thirteen: Knowledge Engineers and Epistemological Entrepreneurs
• Chapter Fourteen: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond

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