how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry /
John Markoff.
New York :
Viking,
2005.
xxiii, 310 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index.
The prophet and the true believers -- Augmentation -- Red-diaper baby -- Free U -- Dealing lightning -- Scholars and barbarians -- Momentum -- Borrowing fire from the Gods.
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An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution to the imprisoned creator of the first word processing software for the IBM PC.