Cyberspace, left to itself, will not fulfill the promise of freedom. Left to itself, cyberspace will become the perfect tool of control.
--Lawrence Lessig

Computers

a technology

issues include human-computer interaction artificial intelligence

examples include

the personal computer
- Alto
- Macintosh

the conceptual

FLEX
memex
Turing machine

Operating systems include

GNU
Unix

Sketchpad

pioneers include Alan Turing and John von Neumann