Full name: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

Author: John Markoff Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143036760 9780670033829 0143036769 0670033820

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. Similar books: Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger Engines of the Mind by Joel N. Shurkin A computer called LEO by Georgina Ferry Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly ENIAC by Scott McCartney Accidental empires by Robert X. Cringely Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik The Code Book by Simon Singh The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh Changes in the Land by William Cronon The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin