Comment by criddell

It's the same book: Patrick kept recommending it, and it was out of print, so Stripe talked to the publisher to get a private printing, which was available for employees and visitors.

This initiative looks like an extension of the same thing: Rescuing books that no publisher seems to want to print.

I think it is the same book. Personal review: This book makes the history of computing tangible, visceral, and fun to read about - covering all the important characters, and showing the network of connections among them, from Vannevar Bush, Norbert Weiner, Claude Shannon, all the way to Bob Taylor and Alan Kay. Licklider forms an important node in the network with his imagination, and actions taken such as this 1963 memo for the "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network" [1]

[1] http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider-IntergalacticNetwork.pd...

Some are, apparently. A useful summary is buried at the bottom under the #why-are-we-doing-this anchor:

    Stripe Press highlights ideas that we think can be broadly useful. Some
    books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing
    work reimagined, and others are republications of previous works that
    have remained relevant over time or have renewed relevance today.