Thank you one and all for your support and assistance with my book project for the past five years. Your encouragement sustained me. Bright Boys: 1938-1958 was completed in late 2007. It has nine chapters, 115,000 words, footnotes by chapter, complete bibliography, and an index in process.

15 Must-know Reasons
to Read this Book!

15 High-tech Adventures
in the Earliest Days of Computing.

1. How Information Technology began and why.

2. How the world’s first digital network come about.

3. How the U.S. got such a big jump on the rest of the world in IT.

4. Why the American hegemony in electronics.

5. How 50 million plundered Nazi patents helped IT…and Bing Crosby as well.

6. Why England slept and never produced an IBM or HP…or anything even close.

7. Why globalization is just now getting to our shores and into our wallets.

8. How Japan really got its start in electronics.

9. Why analog computers (the early big boys) went extinct so fast.

10. How MIT nearly quashed the start of digital computing.

11. How the Office of Naval research almost blew IT for the rest of us.

12. How IBM nearly blew IT for itself.

13. Why Philadelphia was the first Silicon Valley…without the silicon.

14 Why Sun Tzu would have really loved the bright boys.

15. How the military helped save IT (the sons of Sun Tzu finally wised up).

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