Dealers of Lightning

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a riveting, true story of an extraordinary group of inventors who brought about a technological revolution that would change the world.

Cast of Characters

ix

Timeline

xiii

Introduction The Time Machine

xix

Part I: Prodigies

The Impresario

3

(18)

McColough's Folly

21

(12)

The House on Porter Drive

33

(19)

Utopia

52

(16)

Berkeley's Second System

68

(12)

``Not Your Normal Person''

80

(17)

The Clone

97

(20)

The Future Invented

117

(10)

Part II: Inventors

The Refugee

127

(18)

Beating the Dealer

145

(10)

Spacewar

155

(8)

Thacker's Bet

163

(15)

The Bobbsey Twins Build a Network

178

(16)

What You See Is What You Get

194

(17)

On the Lunatic Fringe

211

(18)

The Pariahs

229

(13)

The Big Machine

242

(17)

Part III: Messengers

Futures Day

259

(15)

Future Plus One

274

(15)

The Worm That Ate the Ethernet

289

(11)

The Silicon Revolution

300

(14)

The Crisis of Biggerism

314

(15)

Steve Jobs Gets His Show and Tell

329

(17)

Supernova

346

(15)

Blindsided

361

(10)

Exit the Impresario

371

(18)

Epilogue Did Xerox Blow It?

389

(10)

Afterlives

399

(6)

Source Notes

405

(10)

Glossary of Selected Terms

415

(4)

Bibliography

419

(4)

Acknowledgments

423

(4)

Index

427

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