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Escape Velocity Cyberculture at the End of the Century

Paperback • 1996 • English

Escape Velocity Cyberculture at the End of the Century

By Mark Dery

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About the book

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 It examines would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brain power with smart drugs and mind machines, and on-line swingers seeking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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780340672020

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Escape Velocity Cyberculture at the End of the Century

Format

Paperback

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