Published to tie in with a BBC2 series starting in September 1991, of which Jon Palfreman is the Executive Producer, this book explores the extraordinary rise of a new technology...
Prologue: Tracy's dad -- Missouri boys -- The last transition -- New kinds of people -- The freedom to make mistakes -- The tale of the fig tree and the wasp -- The phenomena surrounding computers -- The intergalactic network -- Living in ...
The Dream Machine: The Golden Age of American Automobiles, 1946-1965
These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that ...
"The year is 1962. More than a decade will pass before personal computers emerge from the garages of Silicon Valley, and a full thirty years before the Internet explosion of...