ABSTRACT

The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited celebrates the 70th anniversary (1949-2019) of the world "going digital" for the very first time—real-time digital computing’s genesis story.

That genesis story is taken from the 2010 edition of Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology, 1938-1958, and substantially expanded upon for this special, anniversary edition.

Please join us for the incredible adventure that is The Untold Story of Everything Digital, when a band of misfit engineers, led by MIT's Jay Forrester and Bob Everett, birthed the digital revolution. The bright boys were the first to imagine an electronic landscape of computing machines and digital networks, and the first to blaze its high-tech trails.

chapter Chapter One|9 pages

Terror at the Pentagon Taxi Stand

chapter Chapter Two|11 pages

Jay’s Dilemma

chapter Chapter Three|17 pages

The Whistle Factory

chapter Chapter Four|25 pages

The Buildout

chapter Chapter Five|19 pages

1949

chapter Chapter Six|27 pages

Island in the Stream

chapter Chapter Seven|31 pages

Into the Great Wide Open

chapter Chapter Eight|27 pages

Voices in the Machine