Comments on: Counterculture and the Tech Revolution

By: Fnustle

Fnustle — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:16:19 +0000

A critical dimension ignored in debates of internet cultural impact is how the ease of research enables us to modify our view of the “indoctrinated” world. That is, the world as it is presented to us by traditional media. I believe this is the real beginning of any cultural transformation. The second step is for people to come together with this enlarged understanding of the world, themselves, and others. But to focus on cultural or counter-cultural movements (god I hate that word, how reactive) as the primary focus is just a continuation of man’s obsession with man, albeit with a fun new toy added to the mix so that we can mutually masterbate rather than in a solo fashion.

Let’s not pollute those who are being raised with the internet with the sollipsism of the me generation.

By: Reader

Reader — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:59:41 +0000

The book that preceded both of these is Technomanifestos: Visions of the Information Revolutionaries by Adam Brate. The book explores the origins of the Information Revolution through the countercultural activism of its makers –the engineers, computer scientists, matheaticians, etc who created the original technologies.

By: Bob Calder

Bob Calder — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:51:10 +0000

Everything is about pattern recognition. We are pattern-seeking animals, or so it has been said. The intelligence of the creators has been released into the newtwork.

Something I didn’t see addressed is the increasing intelligence of the network itself. O’Reilly calls it the network-as-platform when discussing its evolution. When it becomes sefl-sustaining, things will get interesting.

By: fling!

fling! — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:09:31 +0000

i like the idea that today’s most robust economic sector — tech — was made possible by some of the most progressive, dare i say LIBERAL, ideas, thinkers and creators of the last few decades.

without “San Francisco Values” there would be no internet!