21. Computer Lib/Dream Machine, Nelson, 1974

• Article is considered "the most important book in the history of new media"
• often referred to as the "first personal computer book"
• Book is a combo of two separate books bound in the middle - there was the "computer lib" side and the "dream machine" side
• "Computer Lib" questioned/"challenged" what computers were being used for/what they could be used for
• "dream Machines" focused on "media and design" (the author believed this section to be more significant than the "computer lib" section
• Nelson believed that "computer experiences were media to be designed" and should be thought of as actively engaged in thinking about the user - the "human-computer interaction"
• Nelson believed that all types of new media "experiences" should be placed in a "radical, open publishing network" (precursor the world wide web)