What The Dormouse Said: How The Sixties Counterculture Shaped The Personal Computer Industry
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoffs landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCsthe culture being...
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Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoffs landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCsthe culture being counter and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. Its 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 Capn 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. Wonderful . . . [It] makes a mind-blowing case that our current silicon marvels were inspired by the psychedelic-tinged, revolution-minded spirit of the sixties. Its a total turn-on. Steven Levy, author of Hackers