Back to the Future – The Way to a Personal Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought
Talk at reboot7, 10-11 June 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Slides

Back to the Future ^{45 slides, 14.6 MB}

References to the movie clips

1. Sketchpad (4' 03"), ca. 1962. Broy, Denert (eds.): Software Pioneers (DVD Extras)
2. Interview with Jeff Rulifson (2' 08"), 2000. Invisible Revolution
3. Alto Playroom (1' 02"), ca. 1974. Broy, Denert (eds.): Software Pioneers (DVD Extras)
4. Put-That-There (1' 25"), ca. 1979. The NewMedia Reader (CD Extras)

Notes from the Audience

Further Reading

	Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium – Die geistigen und technischen Wurzeln des Personal Computers (497 pages, German) The PhD thesis of Dr. Michael Friedewald Two sections of the appendix are online: References Resources
	Software Pioneers – Contributions to Software Engineering (728 pages, 4 DVDs) Reader of the conference Software Pioneers, Bonn 2001. The entire 2 day conference is available on DVD; and on the conference homepage sd&m Software Pioneers 2001 some notes
	The NewMedia Reader (823 pages, 1 CD) A wonderful reader with otherwise hard to find early and influential articles. The NewMedia Reader home
	Bootstrapping – Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (284 pages)
	NERDS 2.0.1– A Brief History of the Internet NERDS 2.0.1 home
	Dealers of Lightning – Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (448 pages) better than “Fumbling the Future”
	how the web was born (372 pages) coauthored by one of the inventors: Robert Cailliau
	A History of Modern Computing (398 pages) more technical than NERDS 2.0.1 – less focussed on the user interface than Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium

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