The journalist quoted, Tracey Robnett Licklider, is the child of JCR Licklider whose vision for DARPA gave us all the toys we enjoy today. If you haven't read M

The journalist quoted, Tracey Robnett Licklider, is the child of JCR Licklider whose vision for DARPA gave us all the toys we enjoy today. If you haven't read Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine" then you should remedy that. It's a great read and a hell of a story, and suddenly all the names of computing history will fit into a picture.