From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 05:33:13 BST
At 2:53 PM -0400 8/17/05, Platt Holden wrote:
>
>
>Hey, if you want to look up to Indians and spiders as role models and get
>high on drugs, be my guest. But I wouldn't trust any response to DQ that
>was drug induced. I find no evidence that the MOQ suddenly appeared to
>Pirsig in a LSD fog.
>
Hey, that pricked a memory bubble over a book review I read recently
about LSD and the dot com revolution... lemme go see if I can find
it...
What the Dormouse Said
by John Markoff
Since much of the research behind the development of the personal
computer was conducted in 1960s California, it might seem obvious
that the scientists were influenced by the cultural upheavals going
on outside the lab. Very few people outside the computing scene,
however, have connected the dots before Markoff's lively account. He
shows how almost every feature of today's home computers, from the
graphical interface to the mouse control, can be traced to two
Stanford research facilities that were completely immersed in the
counterculture. Crackling profiles of figures like Fred Moore (a
pioneering pacifist and antiwar activist who tried to build political
bridges through his work in digital connectivity) and Doug Engelbart
(a research director who was driven by the drug-fueled vision that
digital computers could augment human memory and performance)
telescope the era and the ways its earnest idealism fueled a passion
for a computing society.
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