John Chicklider Essay

The internet, like every other innovation of the Digital Age, was not created by one lone person. There is much speculation about who should be considered the creator of the internet? Walter Isaacson brought a good point to my attention, What exactly is the internet? I couldn’t answer it. Few can. Isaacson brought forth solid evidence on why John Licklider should receive much of the credit on the creation of the internet.
John Licklider was not a software expert by any means. He had a psychology degree, and he toyed around a bit with computer science and computer history. Far from an expert. Licklider did, however, have visions (similar to that of Ada Byron) of how great the future will be. He believed that humans will be able to create machines
Jake Gyllenhaal, however, is more than qualified to do this. It doesn't take much research of Licklider to realize how (for lack of a better word) odd he was. Licklider mostly kept to himself, unless it involved his work. He had few close friends, and was considered to be incredibly socially awkward. All of these characteristics I see in many of the characters Gyllenhaal has portrayed. In Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal portrayed a psychotic criminal photographer who shows many of the same characteristics as a sociopath. Demolition, Gyllenhaal plays a man who realizes after the death of his wife that he really didn't know her. He literally destroys his life to start a new in hopes of determining what his true purpose in life is. These are just two of what seems to be an endless amount of movies where Gyllenhaal portrays someone who acts far from normal. While Licklider was more than just the idea man for many inventions of the Digital Age, but it was his visions of the future technological advancements that he had for the human race that he is known. He clearly had a visionary mind, and I believe that Jake Gyllenhaal could accurately portray him in a