From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital UtopianismIn the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. |
Contents
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Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture | 41 |
The Whole Earth Catalog as Information Technology | 69 |
Taking the Whole Earth Digital | 103 |
Virtuality and Community on the WELL | 141 |
Networking the New Economy | 175 |
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network ... Fred Turner No preview available - 2008 |
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network ... Fred Turner No preview available - 2006 |