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¶"As We May Think"

Essay (Vannevar Bush, 1945; origin of the Memex concept; foundational text for hypertext, the web, and personal computing)

See also: Bush, Vannevar, Memex, Engelbart, Douglas, Nelson, Ted, Xanadu

¶Behind the Silicon Curtain

Book (Dennis Hayes, 1989)

See also: Hayes, Dennis, Processed World

¶Computer Power and Human Reason

Book (Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976; critique of AI ideology)

See also: Weizenbaum, Joseph, ELIZA, Artificial Intelligence

¶G.

Novel (John Berger, 1972; Booker Prize winner; Berger donated half the prize money to the Black Panther Party)

See also: Berger, John, Ways of Seeing

¶Mother London

Novel (Michael Moorcock)

See also: Moorcock, Michael, New Worlds, Ballard, J.G.

¶The Hour of the Star

Novel (Clarice Lispector)

See also: Lispector, Clarice

¶The Soul of a New Machine

Book (Tracy Kidder, 1981; Pulitzer Prize; account of the development of a Data General minicomputer)

See also: Kidder, Tracy, Data General, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

¶The Unix Hater's Handbook

Book (Garfinkel, Weise, Strassmann, 1994)

See also: UNIX, AT&T Bell Labs

¶Twisty Little Passages

Book (Nick Montfort, MIT Press, 2003; history and theory of interactive fiction)

See also: Montfort, Nick, HyperCard, Nelson, Ted

¶VALIS

Novel (Philip K. Dick)

See also: Dick, Philip K.

¶Vermilion Sands

Short story collection (J.G. Ballard)

See also: Ballard, J.G., New Worlds

¶Ways of Seeing

Book and BBC television series (John Berger, 1972; landmark work of art criticism and cultural theory)

See also: Berger, John, G., Benjamin, Walter, Barthes, Roland, Warhol, Andy, Duchamp, Marcel

¶When Wizards Stay Up Late

Book (Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, 1996; history of the creation of ARPANET)

See also: Hafner, Katie, ARPANET, Cerf, Vint, Kahn, Bob