Lee is a computer engineer and a massive influence on the history of computing culture and the design of personal computers.
The story of the computer that’s often told is about its early birth and use by the military, and later about the rise of personal computers sold to the public, by companies like Microsoft and Apple.
That’s a story worth retelling and dissecting, but Lee Felsenstein’s story is firmly rooted in activism in the 1960s and relates an alternative history of the rise of a people’s technology built primarily for empowerment and community.