Labels:book | bulletin board | crt screen | poster | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: It was one of those rare Valley nights: there had been enough high pressure from the ocean to shove the murky layer of smog off to the East. Lying on their backs in the grass, the programmers were treated to vast, twinkling, Disneyesque array of stars in the night sky. It was just chilly enough require sweater; with pooj in their bellies and the pressure off they lay next to the pond of the Japanese garden with every muscle relaxed Danny thought about the way machines and people were connected Each person computer might have connections to only handful of others may ybe by the phone wires, maybe through the exchange of disks; not many people could see the big picture. But multiply those few connections times the millions of machines and people, and the result was staggering, overlapping. c ...
