From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Автор:
Fred Turner, 344 стр., издатель:
"University of Chicago Press", ISBN:
0-226-81742-3, 9780226817422, 978-0-226-81742-2
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 "Whole Earth Catalog", the computer-conferencing system Well, and, ultimately, 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. 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.