What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry Paperback - 2006
by John Markoff
While there have been several written histories of the personal computer, a well-known technology writer has created the first ever to spotlight the unique political and cultural forces of the 1960s that gave rise to this revolutionary technology.
Summary
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.
First line
In February of 1960, two young California engineers boarded a plane on their way to an annual electronics technical meeting in Philadelphia.
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- Title What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
- Author John Markoff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2006-02-28
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143036760 / 0143036769
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.42 x 0.74 in (20.42 x 13.77 x 1.88 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Library of Congress subjects Nineteen sixties, Computers and civilization
- Dewey Decimal Code 004.16
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