Also some magazines I've been following. Reviews are my own opinions, but they're right. So often I tend towards slightly trashy sci-fi or somesuch during the summers when I'm traveling a lot. Makes NO mention of radical right, survivalists, racists groups, and their use of corrupted Christian rhetoric to justify and motivate their actions. Good job of hiding what appears to be a pretty strong New Age agenda until near of the end of the book.
Nice sidebars cover aspects of algorithms and architecture.
I'd recommend it as a nice first intro to CS, and some of the people who helped to found it. Interesting book linking hacking, virtual reality, hallucinogenic drugs, the rave club scene, and modern mathematics. Hard to buy all of what he says at times, and the dauntless nature of how he links all of these disparate areas makes it seem as if he's saying that everything we experience today in these areas is due primarily to these links. The Rise of the Survivalist Right, by James Coates Good book originally written right after Alan Berg was gunned down in Denver in the 80s. New edition adds some stuff, but came out before Oklahoma City bombing.