[Patrick] Today, in the Valley, and indeed in the technology sector generally, you [have] two influential movements and sub-sectors are crypto and AI. And I think they have sort of something striking in common, which is they're both cults.

 in both cases, they have fervent believers who, for whom these technologies become sort of part of their self-identity.  Does that remind you at all of the Homebrew computing movement?

[Bill]:  Yeah, there's a lot of similarities in that.  There were a small group of people who saw what personal computing would become.....

 There was a small group and some of them were fairly counterculture....  And it had kind of this great feel that we were in on something.  We're gonna change things.

 Those early machines were so limited in terms of what they could actually do, then as we get discs and we connect them together and the memory size gets to be decent, you know, then the sky's the limit

It's fun to see this analogy picking up steam

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only reason I even understood the reference is due to reading the dream machine. Its not something most people are familiar with outside of the US.