J. R. Licklider's 1968 paper in which he wrote that "in a few years, men will communicate through machine easier than they communicate face to face." His drawings of a meeting facilitated by computers is a remarkably accurate prediction of more than 30 years before PowerPoint became ubiquitous. Included here also is Licklider's "Man Comnputer Symbiosis" in which he argues for a simpler interface between people and computers.