NMR: "Man-Computer Symbiosis" summary (pgs. 73-82)

In 1960s J.C.R. Licklider was a very important promoter of science education, time-sharing systems, interactive computing, computer networks, and computing as a future form of new media. He was responsible for redirecting the Advanced Research Projects Agency funding to iniversities thus creating the "iron triangle" which is composed of industry, academia, and the military. Licklider strongly encouraged universities to link their computers together in computer networks to share important technological developments in computer software developed on college campuses. Licklider had a great vision for the future which was that we could more effectively communicate and carry out functions by way of the computer. In Man-Computer Symbiosis, computers have the capacity to carry out formulative thinking and find solutions to problems. Additionally, the computer would cooperate with humans in making decisions and controlling situations.