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基本説明
邦訳:2007年・NTT出版。パーソナル・コンピュータの本当の原点をパイオニアたちの本音をもとに描く。革命的技術の背景にある政治的、社会的、文化的な力にスポットを当てたユニークな一冊。
The Japanese edition was featured in Nikkei Business (Issue: December 17, 2007).
Full Description
"This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers." —New York Times
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.