Webcast: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: the Rise of Digital Utopianism

From the overview:
Fred Turner of Stanford University on “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: the Rise of Digital Utopianism.”
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American 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 represented 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.

Presentation runs about 90 minutes.

Source: Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School / AudioBerkman

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