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Psychologist and computer scientist who envisioned human-computer symbiosis and the networked 'Intergalactic Computer Network.'

Licklider's memo naming a shared, interconnected community of computers — a rhetorical precursor to the internet.

Licklider's memo naming a shared, interconnected community of computers — a rhetorical precursor to the internet.

Licklider and Clark sketch real-time, interactive use of computers and gesture toward an 'Intergalactic Computer Network' of connected machines.

Research administrator who funded ARPANET and later led Xerox PARC's computer science lab; co-author of the thesis that computers would become a communication medium.

Licklider and Taylor argue that networked computers will become a medium for human communication and community, not just computation.