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This text examines the computer revolution and the rise of a high- tech underground counter culture, whose members are using the technology in ways never intended by the manufacturers. It examines would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brain power with smart drugs and mind machines, and on-line swingers seeking cyber-sex and cyber-punk roboticists. Dery poses the question, will this technology liberate or enslave us in our emerging digital world?
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Escape Velocity, Mark Dery
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- Escape Velocity
- Subtitle
- Cyberculture at the End of the Century
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mark Dery
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN10
- 0340672021
- ISBN13
- 9780340672020
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Technology & Engineering, True Stories, Philosophical Topics, Computers & Internet, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Culture and Society, Technology, Computer Networks
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- This text examines the computer revolution and the rise of a high- tech underground counter culture, whose members are using the technology in ways never intended by the manufacturers. It examines would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brain power with smart drugs and mind machines, and on-line swingers seeking cyber-sex and cyber-punk roboticists. Dery poses the question, will this technology liberate or enslave us in our emerging digital world?