Main entry:

Turner, Fred, author.

Title & Author:

From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism / Fred Turner.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Description:

x, 327 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces 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 encounter 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. Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this 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."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0226817415 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226817415
9780226817422 (paperback)
0226817423 (paperback)
(ebook)
9780226817439
(ebook)
0226817431

Subject:

Brand, Stewart.
Brand, Stewart, 1938-
Brand, Stewart, 1938- ...
Brand, Stewart 1938-
Brand, Stewart, (1938- ...)
Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.)
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.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Technologie de l'information Histoire 20e siècle.
Contre-culture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Réseaux d'ordinateurs Aspect social.
Subculture Californie San Francisco Histoire 20e siècle.
Technologie Aspect social Californie (Nord)
Counterculture.
Information technology.
Subculture.
Technology Social aspects.
Computer.
Informationsgesellschaft.
Kultur.
Kulturbeziehungen.
Kulturgeschichte.
Soziale Entwicklung.
Gesellschaft
Informationstechnik
Subkultur
Cyberculture.
Subcultuur.
Informatiemaatschappij.
Technologie de l'information 20e siècle.
Contre-culture États-Unis 20e siècle.
Subculture États-Unis San Francisco (Calif.) 20e siècle.
Informationsteknik historia.
Informationsteknik sociala aspekter.
Subkulturer historia.
Northern California.
California San Francisco.
United States.
USA.
Kalifornien
Whole earth catalog
Whole earth catalog New York, N.Y

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316808
Call No.: 316808
Copy: 1
Status: Available