[TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies?

Maybe of interest, here is something spacewarish.. |I was at Berkeley until July 1981. I had to face a radio program which purported that.. Alles, was die digitale Kultur dominiert, haben wir den Hippies zu verdanken. Anything which dominates the digital culture is owed to the Hippies This "We owe it all to the Hippies" as well as "The real legacy of the 60s generation is the Computer Revolution" actually in English on [1] (talking about the beginning of the actual broadcast), the rest in German. But it also lead(s) (me) to an article of the Rolling Stone, December 1972, on "Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums"[2]. [1] http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/essay/swr2-essay-flowerpowerdaten… [2] http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html That makes me quite jealous of your long hair, i see manes streaming in the warm wind of a golden Californian sunset. I don't think the assessment is right, though, i rather think it is a continous progress of science and knowledge, then maybe also pushed by on-all-fronts efforts like "bringing a moon to the moon by the end of the decade", and, sigh, SDI, massive engineer and science power concentration, etc. And crumbs thereof approaching the general public, because of increased knowledge in the industry. (E.g., the director of the new experimental German fusion reactor that finally sprang into existence claimed something like "next time it will not be that expensive due to what everybody has learned".) And hunger for money, of course, already in the 70s we had game consoles en masse in Italy, for example, with Pacman, Donkey Kong and later then with Dragons Lair or what its name was ("beautiful cool graphics!" i recall, though on the street there were Italian peacocks, and meaning the birds!). --steffen