From Counterculture to Cyberculture
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Fred Turner
The University of Chicago Press / Chicago and London Fred Turner is assistant professor of communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2006 by Fred Turner All rights reserved. Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81741-5 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-81741-5 (cloth)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Turner, Fred. From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth network, and the rise of digital utopianism / Fred Turner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-226-81741-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Computers and civilization. 2. Brand, Stewart. 3. Information technology—History—20th century. 4. Counterculture—United States— History—20th century. 5. Computer networks—Social aspects. 6. Subculture— California—San Francisco—History—20th century. 7. Technology—Social aspects— California, Northern. 8. Whole earth catalog. I. Title: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth network, and the rise of digital utopianism. II. Title.
QA76.9.C66T875 2006 303.48 33 —dc22 2005034149