English language
Published Nov. 5, 2006 by University of Chicago Press.
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.
Subjects
- Brand, Stewart.
- 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, Northern.