From Counterculture to Cyberculture

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture

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In ‘From Counterculture to Cyberculture’ , Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award – winning Whole Earth Catalog , the computer-conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers.While tracing the extraordinary transformation of how our networked culture came to be, Turner’s fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.

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Subtitle: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Author: Turner, Fred
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9780226817422
Pages: 354
Language: English
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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