The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101871555 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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BRIAN DEAR is a longtime tech-startup entrepreneur and the founder of companies including Coconut Computing, FlatWorks, Eventful, and Nettle. He lives with his wife in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He worked in the field of computer-based education for eight years, including five on the PLATO system. . He has written for Educational Technolog
PLATO's story is no different. The many thousands of people who used the system have held on to the PLATO ideas throughout their careers, influencing countless technological products and programs: from flat-panel wall TVs and touch-sensitive screens to chat rooms, instant messaging, screen savers, multiplayer games, flight simulators, crowdsourcing, interactive fiction, emoticons, and e-learning. Like all technology visions, PLATO grew outdated and was disrupted by competing visions. The Friendly Orange Glow is a revelatory paradigm for our technological age.. Every technology story—whether it's about the steam e
A landmark work.”—George Dyson, author of Turing’s Cathedral. I had a glancing exposure to the program and Don Bitzer in the late 1960s as I embarked on work at UCLA on the ARPANET. This book is a timely reminder of what PLATO people astonishingly accomplished long before the rest of the world caught on.” —Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google “Finally! Here is the secret history of the Internet’s elder sibling, the one no one talks about