and then kerouac sat on the couch, we would get a big, tall budweiser.ou know? i are i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. >> keasey was very messianic, and he start the feeling that acid would let you see a larger strugt. and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ country garden in the wind and the rain ♪ ♪ wherever he goes, the people all complain ♪ >> lsd was not an illegal drug. when keasey held these acid tests, as they were known, they'd have two vats. one was punch and one was punch with lsd. >> the acid tests were like a party. the scene is a lot of light shows and music and people dancing. when the dead were playing, it was a way to feel that acid in waves. and i looked down and i saw kids in front of me moving to the music. they lo

kerouac is there reading from one of his books sitting at the piano. it's actually very powerful and poignant moment of what happens there and it's very important for beat literature actually because it's the performance of it that was very important in that time. so it's all there absolutely and we heard the hype. in the 1990s. there was something called the digital divide that people were quite worried about because here we've got this miraculous instrument of learning. online the connectivity would put you in in touch with the masters with the genius with knowledge with science. and poor kids are not going to have it. they're not going to be able to afford the phones and the hookups. their schools are not going to have the wiring and so the achievement gap is only going to go get worse. and so there were things put in in some of the acts of congress that would put more money into wiring these these schools. for in low-income areas and now we have another digital divide and i talk about this in the current book. it is the low-income kids who are havi