Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology

Everything has a beginning. None was more profound¿and quite unexpected¿ than Information Technology. Here for the first time is the untold story of how our new age came to be and the bright boys who made it happen. What began on the bare floor of an old laundry building eventually grew to rival the Manhattan Project in size. The unexpected consequence of that journey was huge¿what we now know as Information Technology. And even more unexpected: trying to convince someone, anyone, that information was the key to most everything else. For sixty years the bright boys have been virtually anonymous while their achievements have become a way of life for all of us. Bright Boys brings them home. By 1950 they¿d built the world¿s first real-time computer. Three years later they one-upped themselves when they switched on the world¿s first digital network. In 1953 their work was met with incredulity and completely overlooked. By 1968 their work was gospel. Today, it¿s the way of the world.

Tom Green was born in Boston, MA and is a lifelong Bostonian, educated in the Boston Public Schools and at Northeastern University. Longtime writer and video producer, Green owned and operated his own video production company for ten years. Green's mystery/detective novel, ôThe Flowered Boxö (Beaufort, New York; Nelson, Canada) was published in 1980, and optioned by United Artists for theatrical release. Green's award-winning stage plays, ôA Warm Night in Winterö and ôMadmen in Raptureö were performed at Boston's Next Move Theatre and later produced for National Public Radio (NPR). His articles on technology and general news subjects have appeared in numerous magazines and journals over the past twenty years. Tom Green is married with two daughters. He presently lives in Chestnut Hill, MA.