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Licklider got rid of the fanciful war games, substituting something that must have sounded equally bizarre--the creation of an "Intergalactic Network."
Readers who want a more complete picture should read two other books: Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), which gives a still-fresh account of MIT's Project MAC (not coincidentally funded by Licklider), an enterprise dominated by the "hacker ethic"--the compulsive urge to explore and improve on things.
When Licklider arrived, his agency specialized in the sort of esoteric Department of Defense research that could only be called "asinine" (his word, in fact).
They trace the web of conversations that brought their ideas to the office of Bob Taylor, Licklider's successor.
Licklider may be the most influential little-known person in the history of computer science.