The author appears to be JCR Licklider's son. JCR Licklider was the ARPAnet funder whose vision and backing gave us modern computing. See Waldrop's excellent "The Dream Machine" (published on Stripe Press) for more on JCR's achievements. <https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine>

Licklider also features in Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning, a book about Xerox PARC.

Thanks! I am putting this on my wishlist:)

This is great. Amazing the progression in the first 10 years.

I would love to read 1999's version (and 2009 & 2019).

  pp. 324-331

Damn. I wish I could have read Byte in its prime. Great article.