Fred Turner, author of “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism” joins us on the show today to talk about his thoughtful and critical take on the evolution of net ideology.
November 9, 2006
7:00-8:30 PM Panel Discussion
8:30-9:00 PM Public Reception with the Panelists
Cubberley Auditorium (Map)
Stanford University
Poster (PDF)
Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-chairman of the Long Now Foundation
Kevin Kelly, former executive editor of Wired magazine and author of Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization and New Rules for the New Economy
Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Fred Turner, moderator and assistant professor of communication, Stanford University, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
With an introduction by Henry Lowood, Curator for Germanic & History of Science Collections, Stanford University Libraries. The panelists will illuminate the extraordinary impact of the Whole Earth Catalog and the American counterculture on contemporary computing and everyday life. The event celebrates the library's one-of-a-kind collection of Whole Earth Papers.
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