[grey_box]This article was first published in the New York Times Magazine on 4 August 1992. How long ago was that? You will see that I needed to explain the following technical terms: CompuServe, icons, Wysiwyg, and smilies. There was (as far as most of the world knew) no Internet. Software was new. So were bugs.[/grey_box] I couldn’t wait to buy Microsoft Word for Windows — rumored to be...
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier (Pantheon 2002). “A marvellous journey around our technology-drenched world…. The work of a master.” —The Independent