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In two short years on the job (he returned to MIT in 1964), Licklider poured enough money into America's universities to influence an entire generation of computer scientists, of whom some would go on to invent video games, the mouse, the metaphor of "windows" and "icons" and, of course, the Internet itself.
Licklider's prescience stemmed from his pioneering research on "time-sharing"--the then-unthinkable notion that more than one person could share a computer at the same time, through terminals.
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.
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.