Computer Lib/Dream Machines

actually pair of books, Computer Lib/Dream Machines - by Ted Nelson

Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature. Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea."[1] Published just before the release of the Altair 8800 kit, Computer Lib is often considered the first book about the personal computer... In Computer Lib. You can and must understand computers NOW, Nelson covers both the technical and political aspects of computers... Dream Machines. New Freedom through Computer Screens- a Minority Report, is the opposite of the Computer Lib side. Nelson explores what he believes is the future of computers and the alternative uses for them.[4] This side was his counterculture approach to how computers had typically been used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib