A collection of papers on groupware and hypertext. Includes classic visionary papers by Vannevar Bush and Douglas Engelbart, interesting work by Thomas Malone, Robert Johansen, Xerox PARC, others. Text, Context, and Hypertext , ed. Diverse set of papers on how computers and hypertext have changed the way people write using computers. Strong emphasis on computer documentation.
Quality is uneven, with some overlap, but includes some noteworthy papers.
The Ecology of Computation , ed. Now available in a somewhat more affordable edition. Open-systems perspective on advanced computing. Includes a set of three papers on agoric market-based computation. For the computer literate.