The Arming of Desire - Counterculture and Computer Revolution

2005

A personal and empowering non-corporate narrative on the computer revolution through artistic, technical, visionary and analytical means.

Hosted at Internet Archive

“My thesis here will be that the creation of the personal computer, the Internet and open source design – the “computer revolution” to which I allude in the title - was not a linear, predictable process but one which involved many different people exercising various aspects of their beings – the artistic as well as the technical, and the visionary as well as the analytical. I hope to demonstrate how it is both incorrect to credit the counterculture or the youth-based cultural and political movements of the 1960’s with this revolution and yet correct to ascribe it to a more pervasive continuation of an ongoing “revolt against institutions”.”

Fonly Institute