For music and media, Licklider foretold a digital future

Wednesday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, known professionally as J.C.R., and to friends and acquaintances as "Lick" - a milestone most likely to be marked wherever computer science reigns. From a variety of posts - MIT professor, vice president at the consulting firm of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, head of the Information Processing Techniques Office at the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Licklider envisioned and enabled the modern wired worl