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From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism /

By: Turner, Fred.
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: x, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226817422; 9780226817422:; 0226817423; 0226817415; 9780226817415.Subject(s): Brand, Stewart | Whole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.) | Whole earth catalog | Computers and civilization | Information technology -- History -- 20th century | Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Computer networks -- Social aspects | Subculture -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century | Technology -- Social aspects -- California, NorthernDDC classification: 303.4833 TUR
Contents:
The shifting politics of the computational metaphor -- Stewart Brand meets the cybernetic counterculture -- The Whole Earth Catalog as information technology -- Taking the whole earth digital -- Virtuality and community on the WELL -- Networking the new economy -- Wired -- The triumph of the network mode.
Summary: In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. But by the 1990s - and the dawn of the Internet - computers started to represent a very different kind of world. 'From Counterculture to Cyberculture' explores this extraordinary and ironic transformation.
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Includes bibliography (p. 291-312) and index.

The shifting politics of the computational metaphor -- Stewart Brand meets the cybernetic counterculture -- The Whole Earth Catalog as information technology -- Taking the whole earth digital -- Virtuality and community on the WELL -- Networking the new economy -- Wired -- The triumph of the network mode.

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. But by the 1990s - and the dawn of the Internet - computers started to represent a very different kind of world. 'From Counterculture to Cyberculture' explores this extraordinary and ironic transformation.

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