Connections -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Organization of this Book -- Introduction -- Stories -- Connecting Information -- Patterns -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecasting Tools -- The Big Picture -- Forecasts -- Chapter 1. Connecting Information -- The Google Story -- The Information Revolution -- Defining Information -- Looking Good -- Google Connects Information -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Information -- Chapter 2. Connecting Circuits -- Moore's Law Story -- Edison's Electric Light -- The Vacuum Tube Diode -- The First Programmable Computers -- ENIAC -- The Transistor -- How Transistors Work -- Proof of Principle for the Transistor -- The Microprocessor -- How Microprocessors Work -- Moore's Law -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Circuits -- Chapter 3. Connecting Chips -- The Personal Computer Story -- Vannevar Bush -- Douglas Engelbart -- Robert Taylor -- J. C. R. Licklider -- Alan Kay -- Butler Lampson -- Charles (Chuck) Thacker -- Personal Computing -- The Xerox Alto -- Apple Computer -- IBM PC -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Chips -- Chapter 4. Connecting Processes -- The Software Story -- John von Neumann -- Claude Shannon -- The Evolution of Programming Languages -- Sir Charles Antony (Tony) Richard Hoare -- Software as an Industry -- Software Productivity -- Fourth Generation Languages -- Proprietary Versus Open Standards -- Emergent Fifth Generation Languages (5GLs) -- Charles Simonyi -- William H. Gates III -- Linus Torvalds -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Processes -- Chapter 5. Connecting Machines -- The Ethernet Story -- Xerox PARC and Ethernet -- Robert Metcalf -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Machines -- Chapter 6. Connecting Networks -- The Internet Story -- Vinton Cerf -- Transition to the World Wide Web.

Tim Berners-Lee -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Networks -- Chapter 7. Connecting Devices -- The Ubiquitous Computing Story -- Ubiquitous Computing -- Mark Weiser -- Jeff Hawkins -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Devices -- Chapter 8. Connecting the Web -- The Ubiquitous Web Story -- Michael Dertouzos -- Project Oxygen -- Perfect Search -- Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting the Web -- Chapter 9. Connecting Intelligence -- The Ubiquitous Intelligence Story -- Kurt Gödel -- Alan Turing -- Marvin Minsky -- Ubiquitous Intelligence -- The Web "Brain" -- What Is Web Intelligence? -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Intelligence -- Chapter 10. Connecting Patterns -- Ray Kurzweil -- Evolving Complex Intelligence -- Accelerating Returns and the Singularity -- The Software of Intelligence -- Patterns -- Connecting Patterns -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Patterns -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.