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"But first he wanted to make sure that US intelligence agencies hadn't secretly developed this kind of interactive computing technology already. 'I even went to the CIA and gave them a pitch,' said Lick"
"He also arranged a meeting with reps from the NSA and made the same pitch about the beauty of a universal, easy-to-use computer platform."
1960 "In 1960, he published a paper that outlined his vision for the coming 'man-computer symbiosis' and described in simple terms the kinds of computer components that needed to be invented to make it happen."
1963-2003 Project MAC
1979 From dits to bits: A personal history of the electronic computer (book)
1984-Today Macintosh
1986? The House Committee Report to the original computer crime bill characterized the 1983 techno-thriller film WarGames-in which a young teenager (played by Matthew Broderick) from Seattle breaks into a U.S. military supercomputer programmed to...
2002 The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (book)
Computer mouse
Douglas Engelbart
J. C. R. Licklider was the first to sell what would be considered today as the first personal computers (PCs) to the CIA and the NSA.
Personal computers