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by Thomas Streeter| 2010| 114 pages| 41.271| English

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This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia. The Net Effect teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought. It argues that the internet's real and imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the development of the internet--most uniquely, romanticism--Streeter demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with profoundly cultural forces--with the deep weight of the remembered past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate.

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Author:Thomas Streeter
Publication Year:2010
ISBN:9780814741160
Pages:114
Language:English
File Size:41.271
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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