The Silicon Valley Revolution: How a Few Nerds Changed the World

Synopsis

This documentary tells the forgotten stories of some of the most influential personal computer pioneers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the late 1960s, big mainframe computers owned by large corporations and the government were seen as tools of control. The Hippie movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests served as a hotbed for a revolutionary idea: creating an affordable home computer to be used by ordinary people as a counterbalance to Big Brother. Well, the rest is history, but what has happened to the early ideals and the initial ethos of free sharing? As one of the visionaries puts it: Its true that what I helped to create is todays establishment. Thats what I was trying to get rid of:the establishment.

Main Cast

Daniel Kottke

himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Larry Tesler

himself

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Lee Felsenstein

himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Andy Hertzfeld

himself

Age : 71 | Popularity : 17%

Bob Frankston

himself

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Bruce Damer

himself

Age : 62 | Popularity : 4%

Tim Paterson

himself

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Mary Eisenhart

himself

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jan Tenhaven
Production	Producer	Stephan Lamby
	Production Manager	Jorge Bogalho
Writing	Writer	Jan Tenhaven
Editing	Editor	Oliver Szyza Gudrun Wolter
	Editorial Production Assistant	Gudrun Wolter
	Editorial Coordinator	Gudrun Wolter
Sound	Sound	Ilhan Coskun
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