From Counterculture to Cyberculture
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20th century
A01=Fred Turner
american culture
Author_Fred Turner
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Category=PDR
communication
computers
counterculture
cyberculture
digital age
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historical
history
information technologies
internet
online
popular imagination
san francisco bay
silicon valley
stewart brand
subculture
technology
transformation
united states of america
usa
well
whole earth network
wired magazine
Product details
- ISBN 9780226817422
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 15 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2008
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Fred Turner is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory.
