Book
What the dormouse said : how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
Publication Information
New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
Physical Description
xxiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Notes
First published: New York : Viking Penguin, 2005.
Contents
- The prophet and the true believers
- Augmentation
- Red-diaper baby
- Free U
- Dealing lightning
- Scholars and barbarians
- Momentum
- Borrowing fire from the Gods.