“But by the early 1970s a shift was under way. ‘Computing went from being dismissed as a tool of bureaucratic control to being embraced as a symbol of personal expression and liberation,’ John Markoff wrote in his study of the counterculure’s convergence with the computer industry, What The Dormouse Said. It was an ethos lyrically expressed in Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem, ‘All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace,’…”