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What the Dormouse Said How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer

John Markoff

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 t...

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Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as a book that described the hippie origins of the personal computer and how people like Doug Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Stuart Brand were involved in the early stages of the digital revolution.

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Actually, it was told by the New York Times technology writer John Markoff, who wrote a kind of overlooked book called What the Door Mouse Said, which was telling the hippie origins of the personal co...

— Episode: 193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip

Episode: 193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip

It was mentioned as a book that described the hippie origins of the personal computer and how people like Doug Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Stuart Brand were involved in the early stages of the digital revolution.

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Actually, it was told by the New York Times technology writer John Markoff, who wrote a kind of overlooked book called What the Door Mouse Said, which was telling the hippie origins of the personal computer and how basically from Doug Engelbert and Steve Jobs and Stuart Brand, they were all dropping acid.

The Jordan Harbinger Show

It was mentioned as a book about the counterculture's influence on Silicon Valley and its techno-utopian dreams, including ideas like the singularity.

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there's a book called what the dormouse said which is all about how the counter culture and silicon valley merge so much of the techno utopian dreams singularity Kevin Kelly like we will become as god...

— Episode: 451: Jason Silva | Origins of a Performa...

Episode: 451: Jason Silva | Origins of a Performance Philos...

It was mentioned as a book about the counterculture's influence on Silicon Valley and its techno-utopian dreams, including ideas like the singularity.

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there's a book called what the dormouse said which is all about how the counter culture and silicon valley merge so much of the techno utopian dreams singularity Kevin Kelly like we will become as gods and extend our intelligence came from inspiration that came out of the sort of psychedelic vision

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