Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner
Recommended by Patrick Collison
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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 militaryindustrial 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 digit...
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