The Untold Story Of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited

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The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited celebrates the 70th anniversary (1949-2019) of the world "goingdigital" for the very first time—real-time digital computing’s genesis story. That genesis story is taken from the 2010 edition of Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology, 1938-1958, and substantially expanded upon for this special, anniversary edition. Please join us for the incredible adventure that is The Untold Story of Everything Digital, when a band of misfit engineers, led by MIT's Jay Forrester and Bob Everett, birthed the digital revolution. The bright boys were the first to imagine an electronic landscape of computing machines and digital networks, and the first to blaze its high-tech trails. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 Author’s Note......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Author......Page 18 Introduction......Page 20 Chapter One: Terror at the Pentagon Taxi Stand......Page 28 Chapter Two: Jay’s Dilemma......Page 38 Chapter Three: The Whistle Factory......Page 50 Chapter Four: The Buildout......Page 68 Chapter Five: 1949......Page 94 Chapter Six: Island in the Stream......Page 114 Chapter Seven: Into the Great Wide Open......Page 142 Chapter Eight: Voices in the Machine......Page 174 Index......Page 202