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

How LSD, the antiwar movement, and the Whole Earth Catalog produced the personal computer. Markoff traces the line from Doug Engelbart's lab at Stanford Research Institute to the Homebrew Computer Club, showing that the values embedded in personal computing — openness, individual empowerment, distrust of centralised authority — came from the counterculture, not from the industry. The intellectual complement to Turner's history that is already in the library.