Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Organization of this Book -- Chapter 1: Connecting Information -- The Google Story -- Information Revolution -- Defining Information -- Looking Good -- Google Connects Information -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Information -- Chapter 2: Connecting Circuits -- The Moore' Law Story -- Edison's Electric Light -- The Vacuum Tube Diode -- The First Programmable Computers -- ENIAC -- The Transistor -- How Transistors Work -- The Proof of Principle for the Transistor -- The Microprocessor -- How Microprocessors Work -- Moore's law -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Circuits -- Chapter 3: Connecting Chips -- The Personal Computer Story / Vannevar Bush, Robert Taylor, J.C.R. Licklider, Alan Kay, Butler Lampson, Charles (Chuck) Thacker -- Personal Computing -- The Xerox Alto -- Apple Computer -- IBM PC -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Chips -- Chapter 4: Connecting Processes -- The Software Story / John Von Neumann, Claude Shannon -- The Evolution of Programming Languages / Sir Charles Antony, Richard (Tony) Hoare -- Software as an Industry -- Software Productivity -- Fourth Generation Languages -- Proprietary versus Open Standards -- Emergent Fifth Generation Languages (5GLs) / Charles Simonyi, William H. Gates, Linus Torvalds -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Processes -- Chapter 5: Connecting Machines -- The Ethernet Story -- Xerox PARC and Ethernet / Robert Metcalf -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Machines -- Chapter 6: Connecting Networks -- The Internet Story -- Vint Cerf -- Transition to the World Wide Web -- Berners-Lee -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Machines -- Chapter 7: Connecting Devices -- The Ubiquitous Computing Story -- Ubiquitous Computing / Mark Weiser, Jeff Hawkins -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Devices -- Chapter 8: Connecting the Web -- The Ubiquitous Web Story.

Michael Dertouzos -- Project Oxygen -- Perfect Search -- Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting the Web -- Chapter 9: Connecting the Intelligence -- The Ubiquitous Intelligence Story -- Kurt Gudel -- Alan Turing -- Marvin Minsky -- Ubiquitous Intelligence -- The Web 'Brain' -- What is Web Intelligence? -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Intelligence -- Chapter 10: Connecting Patterns -- Ray Kurzweil -- Evolving Complex Intelligence -- The Law of Accelerating Returns -- Singularities -- The Software of Intelligence -- Patterns -- Connecting Pattern -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecasts for Connecting Patterns -- Epilog -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.