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(2006)
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner
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In 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.
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Computer networks, Computers and civilization, Counterculture, History, Information technology, Social aspects, Social aspects of Computer networks, Social aspects of Technology, Subculture, Technology, Whole earth catalog, Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.), Whole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.), Technology, social aspects, Computers, social aspects, Ordinateurs et civilisation, Technologie de l'information, Histoire, Contre-culture, Réseaux d'ordinateurs, Aspect social, Technologie, Computer, Informationsgesellschaft, Kultur, Kulturbeziehungen, Kulturgeschichte, Soziale Entwicklung, Gesellschaft, Informationstechnik, Subkultur, Cyberculture, Subcultuur, Informatiemaatschappij, Informationsteknik, Historia, Sociala aspekter, Subkulturer, COMPUTERS, Information TechnologyPeople
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From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism
2006, University of Chicago Press
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