Outside of a Dog

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Fred Turner: From counterculture to cyberculture (2006, University of Chicago Press) No rating

From counterculture to cyberculture

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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 very different kind of world: a collaborative …