Bright Boys is a story about technology when technology was young: 1938-1958. Two decades that ushered in the new world of electronics. A remarkable twenty years when computers were giants, their makers young and unknown, and when there was less than a megabyte of random access memory on the entire planet. Microprocessors were science fiction; transistors were handmade and mistrusted; and banks of hot, glowing electron tubes ruled the land. Networks were meant only for telephones and electric power grids, and the word digital was new on the ear. Yet it came as no surprise to a band of bright boys that these two decades would change everything and that they would play an enormous part in getting it all started.

Bright Boys invites the curious, the intrigued, anyone interested in our digital beginnings to come and see where, when and why mind-amplifying technology first came out to play.