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Tables of Contents for Dealers of Lightning
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Cast of Characters
ix
Timeline
xiii
Introduction The Time Machine
xix
Part I: Prodigies
The Impresario
3
18
McColough's Folly
21
12
The House on Porter Drive
33
19
Utopia
52
16
Berkeley's Second System
68
12
``Not Your Normal Person''
80
17
The Clone
97
20
The Future Invented
117
10
Part II: Inventors
The Refugee
127
18
Beating the Dealer
145
10
Spacewar
155
8
Thacker's Bet
163
15
The Bobbsey Twins Build a Network
178
16
What You See Is What You Get
194
17
On the Lunatic Fringe
211
18
The Pariahs
229
13
The Big Machine
242
17
Part III: Messengers
Futures Day
259
15
Future Plus One
274
15
The Worm That Ate the Ethernet
289
11
The Silicon Revolution
300
14
The Crisis of Biggerism
314
15
Steve Jobs Gets His Show and Tell
329
17
Supernova
346
15
Blindsided
361
10
Exit the Impresario
371
18
Epilogue Did Xerox Blow It?
389
10
Afterlives
399
6
Source Notes
405
10
Glossary of Selected Terms
415
4
Bibliography
419
4
Acknowledgments
423
4
Index
427