From Counterculture to Cyberculture

When the Silicon Valley burst onto the scene in the 1990s, it looked nothing like how we imagine it today. In Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand and the Digital Utopians , author Barry Wellman tells how a group of San Francisco Bay-area entrepreneurs who rejected the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible envisioned a digital utopia modeled on communal ideals of the hippies.