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John Markoff is a Pulitzer Prize winning technology journalist, who retired from his position at the New York Times in 2017. He grew up in the Bay Area of California, and was one of the first journalists to write about the World Wide Web. This interview includes a discussion about Silicon Valley as an idea and workplace; counter cultures and technology; distributed computing and the evolution of the internet / World Wide Web. There is also some discussion about self-driving vehicles toward the end of the interview. Work on a Stewart Brand biography was also touched upon. Books written by Markoff include What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry and Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. Co-authored and collaborative works include The High Cost of High Tech; Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier and Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw. Computer History Museum