(Read ebook) What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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| #399036 in Books | Markoff, John | 2006-02-28 | 2006-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.76 x5.35l,.65 | File Name: 0143036769 | 352 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating History of Personal Computing|By Kindle Customer|This book was a fascinating history of personal computing in America, most specifically in Northern California, most especially in the Stanford region. I swear, I had no idea that Stanford played such a strategic role in the development of the personal computer.
The book attempts to tie together nerdie eng|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Since much of the research behind the development of the personal computer was conducted in 1960s California, it might seem obvious that the scientists were influenced by the cultural upheavals going on outside the lab. Very fe
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...
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