What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
Description
This lively history traces the unlikely connection between the 1960s counterculture and the birth of the personal computer, showing how ideals of individual freedom, shared knowledge, and expanded consciousness influenced a revolutionary technology. Against the backdrop of Stanford and California’s experimental communities, it brings together hackers, visionaries, communal publishers, and underground innovators whose paths converged in the emerging computer movement. Blending technological history with vivid cultural storytelling, the book explores the influence of psychedelic experimentation, alternative education, and collaborative communities on the design and purpose of early personal computers. The result is an engaging, thought-provoking account of how a generation sought to transform computers from institutional machines into tools for personal empowerment.
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paperback
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published Feb 28, 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 9780143036760
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First Published
2005
Language
eng
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