rollling stone spacewar article from '72 by stewart brand about the academic computing community.

Reliably, at any nighttime moment (i.e. non-business hours) in North America hundreds of computer technicians are effectively out of their bodies, locked in life-or-Death space combat computer-projected onto cathode ray tube display screens, for hours at a time, ruining their eyes, numbing their fingers in frenzied mashing of control buttons, joyously slaying their friend and wasting their employers' valuable computer time. Something basic is going on ...

didn´t know <gordon pask>:

It was Gordon Pask who inspired the construction of an <information> management system that had all the components of modern Web browsers, but with the added good sense to provide an organising principle for the hyperlinks – something the World Wide Web still needs. Named after Pask's first implementation, this THOUGHTSTICKER system was built in 1985, some 10 years before the Web's acceptance.

background and a lot of theory: on conversation and conversation software.

In the 1970s, THOUGHTSTICKER was developed at Pask's laboratory as an extension of Pask's studies of the 1950s and 1960s in human learning and individual conceptual style. These studies culminated in a comprehensive approach to educational technology (the CASTE system) ...

The term THOUGHTSTICKER was coined by Pask to mark the maturation of a general approach to knowledge representation whose elements reflected cognitive structures.

got the book about norbert wiener, but the intro sucks. i definitely need another one.

neumann´s letter to <norbert wiener> and "neumann speaking on the occasion of the first public showing of the IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORD), December 2, 1954.

Norbert Wiener, J.C.R. Licklider and the Global Communications Network

but still searching for some historical recording from wiener ...