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[ 1 ] -- Vannevar Bush: Science advisor to F.D.R., grey eminence of the Manhattan Project; also author of "As We May Think" (1945), an article about the future of information technologies which is widely seen as the starting point for hypertext and the World Wide Web. Drawn to impression, not scale.
[ 2 ] -- Katie Hafner: Reporter on electronic media, hackers, and the digital underground. Author of Cyberpunk, a profile and exposé of network "criminals," including Kevin Mitnick. "The best in the business," says Newsweek.
[ 3 ] -- Steven Levy: Author of the groundbreaking Hackers, the intriguing Artificial Life, and the hagiographic Amazingly Great (but hey, they're my saints too). Also "the best," we're told.