From counterculture to cyberculture

By Fred Turner

Subjects: Information Technology, Technologie de l'information, Computers and civilization, Kultur, Social aspects of Technology, Counterculture, Computer, Subkultur, Computer networks, Social aspects of Computer networks, Ordinateurs et civilisation, Gesellschaft, Histoire, Cyberculture, Informationsteknik, Information technology, Sociala aspekter, Informationstechnik, Whole Earth catalog (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kulturgeschichte, Kulturbeziehungen, Whole earth catalog, Whole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.), Réseaux d'ordinateurs, Subkulturer, Contre-culture, Technology, Historia, Technologie, Social aspects, History, COMPUTERS, Subculture, Aspect social, Subcultuur, Informatiemaatschappij, Informationsgesellschaft, Soziale Entwicklung, Technology, social aspects, Computers, social aspects

Description: 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.