num_pages: 400
description: An Unforgettable Journey into the Dark Heart of the Information AgeIn Escape Velocity Mark Dery takes is on an electrifying tour of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brainpower with smart drugs and mind machines, on-line swingers seeking cybersex on electronic bulletin boards, techno-primitives who sport "biomechanical" tattoos of computer circuitry; and cyberpunk roboticists whose Mad Max contraptions duel to the death before howling crowds.Timely, trenchant, and provocative, Escape Velocity is the first truly critical inquiry into cyberculture-essential reading for everyone interested in computer culture and the shape of things to come.
language: English
title: Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
titlecomplete: Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
genres: College, Cultural, Philosophy, Technology, Cultural Studies, Essays, Nonfiction, Social Science, Cyberpunk
ratings_count: 134
publisher: Grove Press