From counterculture to cyberculture

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.

שנה

2006

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

5

עמודים

327

ISBN

9780226817415

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata