1949-2024
Relive the Making of the Future
Audiobook Special Edition
Written & Narrated by Tom Green
The Untold Story of Everything Digital
A breathtakingly incredible romp of derring-do filled with mystery, suspense, high-stakes drama, international intrigue, and breakthrough digital engineering…at a time when digital engineering was only the stuff of sci-fi movies. …Today, it’s in every pocket and purse!
The story of how it all began.
The provenance of all things digital has but one address: 211 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Barta Building, birthplace of the Whirlwind computer 1949.
From nothingness to embryonic, electronic, digital computer, from germination to high-speed, real-time digital computing, to Information Technology, to the Internet, to Artificial Intelligence…and everything anywhere that is digital.
Please join us for this special audiobook edition of the Amazon bestselling print edition,
and relive the making of the future.
Truly, it was the beginning that changed everything.
“The Beginning That Changed Everything”
How our digital age came to be.
Tom Green’s 2019 print edition of The Untold Story of Everything Digital now has an audiobook companion.
Both the book and audiobook recount the origins of our world going digital for the very first time. How it began and why, where, and who were the digital pioneers who made it happen?
Digital computers, from walk-in to pocket size…all in a lifetime!
Content in context
Historical events great and small, both social and political, plus glimpses of everyday life are woven into the fabric of the narrative
The storytelling is nuanced by the marvelous saga of the life and times of the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s.
Creative energy, bottled up during five years of World War II, finally uncorked, releasing a creative outpouring that was rich and varied, especially in the arts and technology.
Context transforms the book from a great read into a fascinatingly memorable audio journey through a world just prior to and just after digital transformation began.
What had previously been talked about and theorized was suddenly, for the very first time, realized…and proven…and tried again…and proven again. The beginning that changed everything!
Great soundtrack for an episodic podcast series
The podcast series will consist of twelve (12) scripted, 30-minute episodes. Each script will contain both new material—script, audio news clips, music, etc.—plus excerpts from the book.
The flow, tempo and imagery of the prose lend themselves well to presentation as a podcast.
By design, The Untold Story of Everything Digital has a purposeful script-like feel to the storytelling that lends itself well to audio presentation.
The timetable
Scriptwriting begins in March 2025, followed by production in August 2025 for airing of Episode #1 in October of 2025. Series to consist of 12 episodes.
“I came to appreciate this book’s excellence in portraying the technologies and human pioneers who gave us the Information Age, Personal Computers and the Internet. It tells their personal stories in a context that allows a general audience to appreciate the sources of innovation that led to so much we enjoy in the Modern Age.”
I.L. San Francisco