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

by John Markoff

2021-01-06 20:29:54

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, so... Read more
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. Less

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File size7.95 X 5.25 X 0.75 in
Print pages352
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date March 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780143036760

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