Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Jan 1, 1984

0h 26m

★ 7.0

Overview

All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution"

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Florin Productions

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Cast

Bill Atkinson

Bruce Baumgart

Stewart Brand

Bill Budge

Doug Carlston

Steve Wozniak

Tony Russomanno

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