preface
Needless to say, there were others as well. But what was clear was that the more research I did, the more it became clear that the kind of personal computing these pioneers had in mind was not the same as the one we were experiencing now. The ideas of peace, love, and freedom were deeply important to the people of their generation. And as far as I could tell, they wanted these values to be reflected in the idea of personal computing. It was tremendously inspiring to learn of this .
But while I was inspired by their ideas, I didn’t fully understand them. I felt that the idea of freedom had a much more concrete meaning to them than meets the eye. Yet, having never fully experienced the 1970s, let alone the 1960s, I wondered if I would ever be able to understand them enough to translate their ideas into action.