| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. By Fred Turner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x, 327 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-81741-5.)

How is it that the computer, a technology given birth to by the military, came to be seen in the 1970s, with the personal computer—and in the 1990s, with the development of the Internet— as a liberating technology that would free individuals from hierarchies? The answer, according to Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture, can be found by looking not to the creators of the technologies but to the key interpreters of the technology, in particular, Stewart Brand.

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