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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- John Perry Barlow: Add a description of this character.
- Kevin Kelly
- Ken Kesey
- Esther Dyson
- Gbn
- George Gilder
- Gregory Bateson
- Buckminster Fuller
- Norbert Wiener
- Marshall Mcluhan
- Engelbart
- Rossetto
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Newt Gingrich
- Peter Schwartz
- Ullman
- Harper
- Bigelow
- Levy
- Quittner
- Lee Felsenstein
- Stewart
- Kahn
- Coate
- Ehrlich
- Lois
- Roszak
- Howard Rheingold
- Steve Durkee
- Bronson
- Reich
- Cage
- Savio
- Rauschenberg
- Vannevar Bush
Setting & Locations edit
- America
- Catalog
- San Francisco Bay
- Usco
- New Left
- Brand
- New York City
- Silicon Valley
- New Mexico
- Manhattan
- Drop City
- Stanford
- Berkeley
- California
- Cyberspace
- United States
- Washington
- Southwest
- Colorado
- Sausalito
- Soviet Union
- Menlo Park
- Long Hunter
- Cambridge
- New Buffalo
- Portola
- Pinedale
- Wyoming
- Taos
- Palo Alto
- Vietnam
- Sri
- Aspen
- Whole Earth
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Fred Turner (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 303.4833
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › California
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Culture
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › Science › Technology › History of Technology
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Popular Culture
- Books › Computers & Internet › Business & Culture › History
- Books › Computers & Internet › Business & Culture › Culture
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy
- Books › Computers & Internet › Certification Central
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