I'll add to the kudos. Great book. Puts together all the pieces of how the technology we commonly use today came about. I vaguely remembered seeing the "This image is fake" picture of a couple pool balls hitting each other from 1984. But hadn't thought much about it at the time (being a kid who could barely 'print screen goto 10'), but reading how all these people collaborated to get to create that one image and where we are now, this book puts everything together.

Plus he's a nice guy, he gave a lecture when promoting the book and stuck around to answer questions after. If you can get to see him talk, it's a good time.
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