Reviews for Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime

The average rating for Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-11 00:00:00 Mauricio Ibanez Abandoned. I can appreciate that as late as 1999, RealAudio was still considered a marvel (the edition I read was from Overlook Press, Woodstock NY, 2000, p.12) and I absolutely understand the metaphor and appeal of the Bakelite radio era :: the early web. But. On page 50, a polarizingly famous novel of Robert Heinlein's is erroneously called "The Moon is a March Mistress." That's unforgiveable. A Google search of the 2014 internet turns up only a single (repeated) instance of that misnomer, in the context of a piece of pop music. In other words, no one, anywhere, ever, has ever gotten the title of that book wrong, in that way. Editing matters.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-05 00:00:00 ANDREW SHORTHOUSE My husband has been after me to read this book for several years so I finally bit the bullet and got it done. It was published in 2000 so it was interesting to read the history of the Internet and WWW up to that date and think of how it has evolved since then. I learned lots of things but also discovered that one can't be married to a software designer for over 30 years without picking up a lot of knowledge along the way. I knew of almost all the technical innovations and programming languages discussed, and because we had network access and email very early on, I felt like a pioneer in cyberspace. I enjoyed the book and its look at the movers and shakers of networks and how collaboration made the Internet what it is today.