The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist

by Jacques F. Vallée, Vallee

Traces the evolution of computers, looks at the structure and capabilities of computer networks and predicts how they will affect society

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction

210 pages, Paperback

Published July 23, 1993

About the author

Excerpted from wikipedia: Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.
In mainstream science, Vallée is notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI International in creating ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.

Reviews

[Jayesh · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a shame it's out of print :(. I read the version available on Internet Archive. Fun, wise and prescient in so many ways.

[serena]

Remarkably prescient, sometimes horrifically so.