Tools For Thought - On the Rise of Personal Computing (dd 1986)


	Tools For Thought - On the Rise of Personal Computing (dd 1986)

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7-29-2007 6:43 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f2fe3e0-3c46-404c-bdbd-bbade3cca360/882F833C-5C3E-42D6-88E3-71CA25963B9E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/" href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rheingold.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/"><FONT size="7" color="#5511cc">Tools For Thought</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="center"><FONT size="+1">by <A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/../../howard">Howard Rheingold</A></FONT>
</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/"><A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/1.html"><B>Chapter One</B></A>: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/2.html"><B>Chapter Two</B></A>: The First Programmer Was a Lady
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/3.html"><B>Chapter Three</B></A>: The First Hacker and his Imaginary Machine
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/4.html"><B>Chapter Four</B></A>: Johnny Builds Bombs and Johnny Builds Brains
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/5.html"><B>Chapter Five</B></A>: Ex-Prodigies and Antiaircraft Guns
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/6.html"><B>Chapter Six</B></A>: Inside Information
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/7.html"><B>Chapter Seven</B></A>: Machines to Think With
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/8.html"><B>Chapter Eight</B></A>: Witness to History: The Mascot of Project Mac
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html"><B>Chapter Nine</B></A>: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/10.html"><B>Chapter Ten</B></A>: The New Old Boys from the ARPAnet
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/11.html"><B>Chapter Eleven</B></A>: The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/12.html"><B>Chapter Twelve</B></A>: Brenda and the Future Squad
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/13.html"><B>Chapter Thirteen</B></A>: Knowledge Engineers and Epistemological Entrepreneurs
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html"><B>Chapter Fourteen</B></A>: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
<A href="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/footnotes.html"><B>Footnotes</B></A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/"><I>Tools for Thought</I> 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.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/882F833C-5C3E-42D6-88E3-71CA25963B9E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>