Did this guy invent the internet?

Опубликовано: 13 Март 2022
на канале: Phil Edwards

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Um, yeah. IMHO he did.

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I am telling you, this book is craaaaaazy long about a very niche subject. And I don't know that the personalities are super magnetic (though there are a lot of amusing Lick anecdotes I left out). So don't go in expecting "The Right Stuff."

That said, I am a huge nerd, so I loved this book. This era should be a way bigger part of our collective mythology.

Read Lick's papers too:
Man Computer Symbiosis: http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider%...
Intergalactic Memo: http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider-...
The Rat One: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15415...
What I think is his biggest psychoacoustics paper, if you dig that: https://web.mit.edu/HST.723/www/Theme...

For the video and audio - not gonna lie, it's a bit dull. This is late in Licklider's life, and he reportedly suffered from Parkinson's. He gets in the weeds. I actually like that he doesn't come off as the world's finest communicator — it shows how much we overrate that. However, these are kinda slogs.
Oral History I cite (transcript and audio's around there somwehere): https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11...
Some Reflections on Early Computer History:    • Some Reflections on Early History by ...
(this is also at Archive.org)

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