"Power to the people = popular access to computers? Actually, it's not such a stretch. But how did the pieces fall into place? Explaining that is the hard task, and it's one ably taken up by John Markoff in What the Dormouse Said: How the '60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. Markoff, a Silicon Valley correspondent for The New York Times, has produced a fascinating read, uncovering the many threads that connected the counterculture with the pioneering computer research later carried out just south of San Francisco," says Charles Cooper at CNET News.com.
The book is also featured in the New York Times, and there's a review and discussion at Slashdot.
Comment: For the handful of readers who are not (at least spiritually) boring old hippies, what the dormouse said was, in the immortal tones of Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane: "Feed your head, Feed your head". The lyrics, however, often say "Keep your head! Keep your head!", which makes sense when there's a Red Queen around.
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