梦想机器 The Dream Machine

基本信息

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stripe Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 25, 2018

Edition ‏ : ‎ Fourth

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 528 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1732265119

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732265110

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

讲述的是一位开启互联网发展进程，并彻底改变我们对计算机认知的人的故事。

每一次伟大的革命背后都蕴藏着远见卓识，而我们这个时代伟大的革命，或许正是源于J.C.R.利克莱德的远见卓识。他并非一台个人电脑的设计者，也并非其软件的编写者，更没有参与那些将个人电脑推向大众视野的传奇早期公司。他是一位孜孜不倦的远见卓识者，看到了个人与计算机及软件互动方式的巨大潜力。

在计算机与机械数据处理器仅一步之遥的年代，利克莱德就已开始撰写关于“人机共生”、“计算机作为通信设备”以及如今已为人熟知的“星际网络”的论文。他的思想影响深远，他的热情极具感染力，以至于作家M.米切尔·沃尔德罗普称他为“计算机界的约翰尼·苹果籽”。

沃尔德罗普以引人入胜的个人叙述和详实的历史阐述，讲述了利克莱德的故事。他不仅开启了互联网的先河，更彻底改变了我们对计算机的认知。

这本由Stripe出版社出版的版本还收录了利克莱德三篇具影响力的著作原文：《人机共生》（1960年），概述了引领20世纪70年代个人电脑革命的愿景；《星际网络》备忘录（1963年），阐述了启发互联网的愿景；以及《作为通信设备的计算机》（1968年，与罗伯特·泰勒合著），进一步阐述了他对网络未来发展的设想。

The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.

Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he involved in the legendary early companies that brought them to the forefront of our everyday experience. He was instead a relentless visionary who saw the potential in the way that individuals could interact with computers and software.

At a time when computers were a short step removed from mechanical data processors, Licklider was writing treatises on “human-computer symbiosis,” “computers as communication devices,” and a now not-so-unfamiliar “Intergalactic Network.” His ideas became so influential, his passion so contagious, that author M. Mitchell Waldrop calls him “computing’s Johnny Appleseed.”

In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.

This Stripe Press edition also includes the original texts of Licklider’s three most influential writings: “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960), which outlines the vision that led to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his “Intergalactic Network” memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the internet; and “The Computer as a Communication Device” (1968, coauthored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become.

作者简介

M·米切尔·沃尔德罗普是一位自由撰稿人和编辑。他拥有威斯康星大学新闻学硕士学位和粒子物理学博士学位。他曾任《化学与工程新闻》的撰稿人和西海岸分社社长、《科学》杂志的高级撰稿人、《自然》杂志的社论版和专题编辑，并曾在美国国家科学基金会从事媒体事务工作。他著有《人造思维》（沃克出版社，1987年），该书探讨了人工智能；以及《复杂性》（西蒙出版社，1992年），该书讲述了圣塔菲研究所和新兴的复杂性科学。他与妻子艾米·E·弗里德兰德居住在华盛顿特区。

M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a masters in journalism and a PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin. He was previously a writer and West Coast bureau chief for Chemical and Engineering News, senior writer at Science, editorial page and features editor at Nature, and worked in media affairs for the National Science Foundation. He is also the author of Man-Made Minds (Walker, 1987), a book about artificial intelligence, and Complexity (Simon & Schuster, 1992), a book about the Santa Fe Institute and the new sciences of complexity. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Amy E. Friedlander.