It would be hard to read this and still try to deny LSD has positive potential.
Whatever you think of Macintoshes, or Apple Computer as it exists nowadays, it’s a fact that the first Macs are pretty much what brought computers, graphical user interfaces and people into contact with one another. Windows and Linux then followed suit. So the computer you are likely reading this on was initially invented by someone who not only has tripped on acid, but calls that experience one of the few really important things to ever happen to him.
I have to wonder if Steve Jobs ever had any contact with Timothy Leary, who shifted his focus from LSD to computers at least in the public eye after he got out of prison in the 1970s.
Timothy Leary spoke at an Apple Convention for Steve Jobs in the late 1980’s.
I saw Tim speak at several functions, and I seem to remember him talking about brainstorming during the acid heyday with a bunch of college trippers who were into programming, (including both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak) about what life would be like if computers could be made small enough and user friendly enough to be in every household.
Still looking for written account by someone else who participated to back that up, though.