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What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around. About What the Dormouse Said “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
21 de abr. de 2005 · What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry, was published in 2005 by Viking Books. Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest For Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, by HarperCollins Ecco, will be published in August 2015.
Focusing on the period of 1962 through 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a heady mix of tech industries, radicalism, and readily available drugs flourished, "What the Dormouse Said" tells the story of the birth of the personal computer through the people, politics, and protest that defined its unique era.
The Dormouse is a fictional character from the novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The character also appears in Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland. Like in the book, he is sleepy and lazy, but unlike in the book, he sings Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat instead of his story about mouse sisters to entertain the tea-party participants. He panics at the mention of the word "cat ...
21 de abr. de 2005 · What was it that the dormouse said? According to Grace Slick, something about feeding your head. Fittingly, New York Times technology writer Markoff observes, many key figures in the early computer industry were heads themselves. Apple’s Steve Jobs, for one, maintains “that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he had ...
I think we’re well past that. And the White Knight is talking backwards. No, he’s not. And the Red Queen’s off with her head. That’s the Queen of Hearts, lady! Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head Feed your head. This ending wail, of course, is the biggest conundrum of the whole song. The Dormouse never once said “Feed your ...
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