[vidarh]

> Needless to say, nobody involved in the 1960s counter-culture movements was in any position to actually implement the kind of changes needed to realize the grand vision of an ideal hippie society.

Maybe not directly, but a substantial chunk of the hacker culture came from the periphery of it.

"What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff is an interesting exploration of those links.

And some people, like Stewart Brandt, were at the nexus of both. Stewart Brandt as part of the Merry Pranksters which was part of kickstarting the hippie community in SF, as the publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, assisting Doug Engelbart with the Mother of All Demos, and later as a founder of The Well and more recently via the Long Now Foundation.