Doug Englebart's Personalization Lab - demo in 1968 showed text editor, video conf, mouse, etc (advocate of complexity in computing, as opposed to Larry Tessler who advocated simplicity)
People's Computer Company gave rise to Homebrew Computer club out of which came the personal computer
all within 5 miles of kepler's
Levy's five principles of MIT AI Lab hackers:
1) computers and anything that might teach you anything about how the world works should be subject to "hands on," accessile
2) information should be free
3) mistrust authority
4) judge hackers solely on merit of technical contribution. not anything having to do with race, gender, etc
5)
6) computers can improve your life
Gibson - Neuromancer, Vinge - True Names, Stevenson - Snow Crash
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androgyny in the counterculture - a feminist outgrowth in which diversity ignored because gender doesn't matter? how explicit was this androgyny, as opposed to a denial of the existence of gender by sheer ignorance? when did androgyny break down?
