Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

 

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0h 26m 1984 HD

All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution"


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