#1450 - John Markoff

John Markoff is a journalist best known for his work covering technology at The New York Times for 28 years until his retirement in 2016 and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick. John is the author of "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information.