How Did My Father’s “Mass Information Utility” Turn Into Facebook?

I can’t say that I invented the Internet

Jacket for Mass Information Utilities and Social Excellence — design by Saul Lambert, photo by Author from his private collection.

But I was there, playing tic-tac-toe on computers possibly connected to the Strategic Air Command. My Father, Dr. Harold Sackman, was a researcher for the RAND Corporation and its spinoff, Systems Development Corporation (SDC). His specialty was what was then known as “Man-Machine…