Hippie Computer Geek

The real legacy of the sixties generation is the computer revolutionquot - Stewart Brand in an article from Time Magazine Article is reprinted here on our site Many of the articles, FAQ and presentations on this site will detail further about how personal computers, the hacker and maker ethics, open source software, online communities and

Take the personal computer-created in the 1970s by a group of Bay Area hobbyists who wanted to bring computer power to the people. Take open source software-although the free software movement didn't officially start until Richard Stallman's manifesto in 1983 , his long hair and beard, along with his claim that ideas should circulate freely

In an essay he wrote for Time magazine in 1995, Brand maintained that the communal and libertarian outlook espoused during the hippie era spawned the seeds that later bore fruit in the form of the

In the midst of societal upheaval during the 1960s and 70s, the Vietnam War ignited anti-war and counterculture movements, giving voice to individuals opposing prevailing societal norms and values.

The hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s had a significant impact on shaping the culture and values of Silicon Valley. While the relationship between the counterculture movement and the tech industry might seem surprising at first, it played a crucial role in shaping the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that became characteristic of the

When the musicians once and forever known as the Grateful Dead take the stage in Chicago this weekend to cap a two-city, five-show 50th anniversary run, Deadheads the world over will have myriad

My project began in 1985 when Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple and began his quest for redemption by attempting to build a super computer for education. Steve represented the freewheeling sensibility of the times, combining his idealistic, hippie vision and design aesthetic with the space-race ambitions of the prior generation.

How did the countercultural ideals of the 1970s hippies shape the tech revolution that followed? This documentary explores how early PC pioneers, driven by a

To this day, computer scientists and technicians are almost universally science-fiction fans. And ever since the 1950s, for reasons that are unclear to me, science fiction has been almost

The quotmost curiousquot legacy of the hippie movement, you write, quotis the role that it played in the development of the personal computer, the rise of the high-tech industry and the emergence of