Mitchell D. Kapor pioneered the consumer software industry as founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and the creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the revolutionary spreadsheet and graphics application. A teenage math prodigy from Freeport, Long Island, he studied psychology, linguistics and computer science -- an unorthodox curriculum for the time -- at Yale University. Kapor had hoped that the study of computer science would serve his ongoing interest in the nature of consciousness, but he grew frustrated with the cumbersome, inaccessible mainframe computers of the day. After graduating at...