Reviews for Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics

The average rating for Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-24 00:00:00 Yong Shin Perhaps this is the "secret history of the internet" because the true history of the internet remains mostly a secret to the reader after finishing this book! Banks spends a few pages sketching in a bare outline of the early technical roots of the internet in the ARPA/DARPA days, and does an OK job of tracking the history of bulletin boards and the early online giants CompuServe and AOL. But the threads start and remain unconnected in the history, so that my one-sentence summary of the book would read like this: "Some university guys in the 50s started networking military computers, then Compuserve and AOL figured out how to get people dialup, then the internet came." Interestingly, in a timeline in an appendix Banks does mention in very short list form some of the key integration points between the technology, business, and content that makes up the internet, but he never tells the full story of most of these! Skip this one and wait for Al Gore's "How I did it" expose.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-16 00:00:00 Guido Morales Jr Started - 10/1/08.