Who wrote the book 'Computer Liberation and Dream Machine', the first book on personal computers?
Who wrote the book 'Computer Liberation and Dream Machine', the first book on personal computers?
The correct option is B Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson wrote the book
'Computer Liberation and Dream Machine', the first book on personal computers.
Nelson was stubborn
enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea."
Published just before the release of the Altair 8800 kit, Computer Lib is often
considered the first book about the personal computer.
Computer Lib is a 1974
book by Ted Nelson, originally published by Nelson himself, and printed with
Dream Machines, another book by Nelson, as a two front cover paperback to
indicate its intertwingled nature, and was republished with a foreword by
Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. Computer Lib, subtitled "You can
and must understand computers NOW," was influenced by Brand's Whole Earth
Catalog.
Nelson's book is a
spirited manifesto that inspired a generation of DIY computer-lovers. In his
book Tools for Thought, Howard Rheingold calls Computer Lib "the best-selling
underground manifesto of the microcomputer revolution." In Steven Levy's
book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer
revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to
publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea." Published
just before the release of the Altair 8800 kit, Computer Lib is often
considered the first book about the personal computer.
Ted Nelson wrote the book 'Computer Liberation and Dream Machine', the first book on personal computers.
Nelson was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea." Published just before the release of the Altair 8800 kit, Computer Lib is often considered the first book about the personal computer.
Computer Lib is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, originally published by Nelson himself, and printed with Dream Machines, another book by Nelson, as a two front cover paperback to indicate its intertwingled nature, and was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. Computer Lib, subtitled "You can and must understand computers NOW," was influenced by Brand's Whole Earth Catalog.
Nelson's book is a spirited manifesto that inspired a generation of DIY computer-lovers. In his book Tools for Thought, Howard Rheingold calls Computer Lib "the best-selling underground manifesto of the microcomputer revolution." In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea." Published just before the release of the Altair 8800 kit, Computer Lib is often considered the first book about the personal computer.
