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Falling for the Future | Mute - 1 views

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future digital utopia California counter-culture

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pjt111 taylor on 05 Jun 13

Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture begins with the intriguing question: how can one account for the remarkable transvaluation of the computer from a Cold War accessory to omnicide and 'soul murder' into a convivial tool of personal liberation, all within 30 years? Specifically, in Berkeley in 1964, 'disembodiment - that is, the transformation of the self into data on an IBM card - marked the height of dehumanization', while for the digital utopians of the 1990s, 'it marked the route to new forms of equality and transformation.'

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture begins with the intriguing question: how can one account for the remarkable transvaluation of the computer from a Cold War accessory to omnicide and 'soul murder' into a convivial tool of personal liberation, all within 30 years? Specifically, in Berkeley in 1964, 'disembodiment - that is, the transformation of the self into data on an IBM card - marked the height of dehumanization', while for the digital utopians of the 1990s, 'it marked the route to new forms of equality and transformation.'</div>

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