From counterculture to cyberculture
Subtitle: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism
By: Fred Turner.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Brand, Stewart.; Whole earth catalog.; 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.
Other titles: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The shifting politics of the computational metaphor; title: Stewart Brand meets the cybernetic counterculture; title: The Whole Earth Catalog as information technology; title: Taking the whole earth digital; title: Virtuality and community on The Well; title: Networking the new economy; title: Wired; title: The triumph of the network mode.