John Markoff: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005)
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“An unparalleled history of how technology and the counterculture came together in the 1960s, created the cult of the personal computer, and shaped today’s Silicon Valley.
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap’n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.”
Publisher Viking Adult
ISBN 0670033820, 9780670033829
336 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-25)
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