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| Named Person: | Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand; Stewart Brand |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Fred Turner |
| ISBN: | 0226817415 9780226817415 9780226817422 0226817423 |
| OCLC Number: | 62533774 |
| Description: | x, 327 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Other Titles: | Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism |
| Responsibility: | Fred Turner. |
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"[Turner] postulates that Brand was an idealistic (albeit Barnumesque) leader of a merry band of cybernetic pranksters who framed the concept of computers and the Internet with a seemingly nonintuitive twist: These one-time engines of government and big business had transmogrified into a social force associated with egalitarianism, personal empowerment, and the nurturing cocoon of community." - Steven Levy, Bookforum "A revealing new book.... [Turner] is rigorous in his argument... and impressive in his range." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times "Turner's fascinating From Counterculture to Cyberculture... focuses on a key player whose role was making the counterculture-cyberculture connection: Stewart Brand.... There are a myriad of fascinating little historical details that [Turner] dug up that will surprise and enlighten even the key players in the drama." - Henry Lieberman, Science" Read more...
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- Computers and civilization.
- Brand, Stewart.
- 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.
- Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.)
- 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)
- Brand, Stewart, -- (1938- ...)
- Technologie de l'information -- 20e siècle.
- Contre-culture -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle.
- Subculture -- États-Unis -- San Francisco (Calif.) -- 20e siècle.
- Informationstechnik.
- Gesellschaft.
- Subkultur.
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