


The emerging digital world in revolutionary terms: Wired.īy recounting their history, this book reveals and helps to explain a complex intertwining of two legacies: that of the military-industrial research culture, which first appeared during World War II and flourished across theĬold war era, and that of the American counterculture.īarefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia Inġ993 all would help create the magazine that, more than any other, depicted Most-quoted spokespeople for a countercultural vision of the Internet. Rheingold, Esther Dyson, and John Perry Barlow, became some of the Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s,īrand and other members of the network, including Kevin Kelly, Howard Influential computer conferencing system of the decade, the Whole Earth In 1985 he gathered them again on what would become perhaps the most Tesler, Paul Tough, Jim Warren, and Gail Williams. Murphy, Richard Raymond, Danica Remy, Howard Rheingold, Louis Rossetto, Peter Schwartz, Mark Stahlman, Gerd Stern, Shirley Streshinsky, Larry

For all of their help, I’d like to thank Bob Albrecht, DennisĪllison, John Perry Barlow, Reva Basch, Keith Britton, Lois Britton, Johnīrockman, Michael Callahan, John Coate, Doug Engelbart, Bill English, Leeįelsenstein, Cliff Figallo, David Frohman, Asha Greer (formerly Barbaraĭurkee), Katie Hafner, Paul Hawken, Alan Kay, Kevin Kelly, Art Kleiner, Butler Lampson, Liza Loop, John Markoff, Jane Metcalfe, David Millen, Nancy They have been extraordinarily open andįorthcoming, devoting hours and sometimes days to helping me understand Perhaps the people to whom this book owes the most are those whose Online Connections: Internet Interpersonal Relationships. HTML/jack_in_young_pioneer.html (accessed September 27, 2005).īarnes, Susan B. “Jack In, Young Pioneer! Keynote essay for the 1994 Computerworld CollegeĮdition.” Available at John_Perry_Barlow/ eff.org/barlow/Declaration-Final.html (accessed November 15, 2004). “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.” 1996. John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/crime_and_puzzlement_1.html (accessed September 27, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital UtopianismĪ Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace,įrom Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death,
