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		mikecane on March 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Alan Kay says programing is pop culture. W... OK, as a non-coder, I'd recommend seeing the video of The Mother of All Demos: http://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY I'd also suggest reading Ted Nelson's book, "Literary Machines." Another book would be Steven Levy's "Hackers." And Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine's book, "Fire in the Valley."

unimpressive on March 28, 2013 [–]

If you can find it, Computer Lib would probably be good too, though it's sort of just a prequel to Literary Machines.

(I myself failed at this task.)

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