Karu’s blog

This is a pretty bad book. It extends this hypothesis that the 60s counter-culture revolution shaped the modern computer industry. Creates all kinds of convoluted connection between LSD in the 60s, Vietnam war protests, ARPA, Engelbart etc. Seems like a concocted web more than anything else. The one insightful thing I found in the book was the observation that, all the intellectual heavyweights in the 60s and 70s were firmly behind a network centric computing paradigm, but for some reason when personal computing actually took off in the 80s PCs became stand-alone units primarily. The book didn’t explain why this occured – yet another weakness of the book.