From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Steward Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner

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Author(s)

Fred Turner

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2008

Scope

328 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9780226817422

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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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Keywords

counter culture , utopia , future scenario's , internet , new media

Location

Cabinet 11 - 4: Digitale Media & Internet

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.