What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

Type

Book

Authors

John Markoff

ISBN 10

0143036769

ISBN 13

9780143036760

Tags

Company Profiles, Economic Conditions, Computers & Technology, History, World, Engineering, History of Technology, Social Aspects, Popular Culture

Description

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. - from Amzon

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