Contents

Cast of Characters

Timeline


Introduction The Time Machine


Part I: Prodigies

Chapter 1 The Impresario

Chapter 2 McColough’s Folly

Chapter 3 The House on Porter Drive

Chapter 4 Utopia

Chapter 5 Berkeley’s Second System

Chapter 6 “Not Your Normal Person”

Chapter 7 The Clone

Chapter 8 The Future Invented


Part II: Inventors

Chapter 9 The Refugee

Chapter 10 Beating the Dealer

Chapter 11 Spacewar

Chapter 12 Thacker’s Bet

Chapter 13 The Bobbsey Twins Build a Network

Chapter 14 What You See Is What You Get

Chapter 15 On the Lunatic Fringe

Chapter 16 The Pariahs

Chapter 17 The Big Machine


Part III: Messengers

Chapter 18 Futures Day

Chapter 19 Future Plus One

Chapter 20 The Worm That Ate the Ethernet

Chapter 21 The Silicon Revolution

Chapter 22 The Crisis of Biggerism

Chapter 23 Steve Jobs Gets His Show and Tell

Chapter 24 Supernova

Chapter 25 Blindsided

Chapter 26 Exit the Impresario

Epilogue Did Xerox Blow It?


Afterlives

Source Notes

Glossary of Selected Terms

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Searchable Terms

About the Author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher