Plato and the Dormouse

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During my summer vacation I read John Markoff's book “What the Dormouse Said.” 1 I assume it was the publisher that insisted on adding the subtitle “How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry”; it does give you an idea what the book is about, but actually it's somewhat misleading. Markoff describes the prehistory of personal computing—in particular the work of Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay—from a different angle: his focus is on the social environment in the Sa...

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