Bicycle for the Mind

In the early 1970s the computer was a room-sized machine tended by specialists in white coats, something you fed punch cards and waited on. A handful of hobbyists, dreamers, and misfits refused to accept that. Within a decade they had put a computer on a desk, then in a home, and in doing so they rewired the modern world. Steve Jobs called the personal computer "e;a bicycle for the mind"e; — a too...