From Counterculture to Cyberculture Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

Name: From Counterculture to Cyberculture Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
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ISBN: 9780226817422

ISBN-10: 0226817423

ISBN-13: 9780226817422

Edition: 2008

Authors: Fred Turner

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; InFrom Counterculture to CybercultureFred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and theWhole Earthnetwork. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winningWhole Earth Catalog, the computer-conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successfulWiredmagazine, 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…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor



Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture



The Whole Earth Catalog as Information Technology



Taking the Whole Earth Digital



Virtuality and Community on the WELL



Networking the New Economy



Wired



The Triumph of the Network Mode


Notes


Bibliography


Index