How the Sixties Counter culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
Recommended by Bret Victor and Kevin Kelly
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Programming, and Technology.
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 PCsthe 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 visio...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Programming, and Technology.
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