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What the Dormouse Said
By John Markoff
John Markoff shows how 1960s counterculture and expanded consciousness shaped the personal‑computer industry, linking psychedelic culture, information technology, and the belief that computers can broaden human freedom.
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John Markoff traces how 1960s counterculture and expanded consciousness shaped the personal-computer industry. The book is useful cyberdelic context because it connects psychedelic culture, information technology, and the idea that computers could expand human freedom; those are historical claims described by the publisher, not evidence that the book itself induces an altered state.
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