This conversation aired in the August 7, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents.
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Designer Lee Felsenstein is legendary. He’s one of the Electronic Frontier Foundations’ "Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier"; a Laureate of The Tech Museum in San Jose; and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. In his new autobiography, "Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future," you’ll find something surprising: this hero to geeks and nerds the world over is no cliche. He didn’t spend his young adult years head down over a keyboard, oblivious to the world. He was at Berkeley, hitting the streets and getting arrested in the cause of civil rights. I asked Lee about his rare personality blend: introvert tech guy and radical protester.
