Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace

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The digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence, and the tension from the very first between corporate high tech and the appropriation of information technologies by the counter culture Cyberia is an ideas led, exuberant documentary written in 1994 about the converging strands of this new era, the empowerments of cyber technology and the emergent hacker and cyber milieu. Free Read [ Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace ] Author [ Douglas Rushkoff ] – kino-fada.fr The very best book abotu this topic I laerned lot from this book THANKS to authors.I read this when I was 12 or 13 and it blew my mind and changed my life My curiosity about hackers is what drew me to it, but it introduced me to the insights from the psychedelic revolution, the magic of chaos theory and fractals, and ideas about paganism, and even including a glowing description of roleplaying games The core message I remember was that our beliefs, concepts, and inner programming are incredibly powerful in shaping our lives and the way we see the world It led me into even I read this when I was 12 or 13 and it blew my mind and changed my life My curiosity about hackers is what drew me to it, but it introduced me to the insights from the psychedelic revolution, the magic of chaos theory and fractals, and ideas about paganism, and even including a glowing description of roleplaying games The core message I remember was that our beliefs,...There was a time before the age of Google buses, PRISM, and brogrammers, when digital culture meant psychedelics, house music and reconstructed paganism Douglas Rushkoff managed to snap a picture at the very crest of that wave, capturing the philosophies, personalities and chemistries that made it a moment of such boundless optimism Now, twenty ...Amazing book In my opinion THE manifiesto of cyberculture.Mixes technology with philosophy, religion, drugs, rpg games and art.Very interesting style of writing Mixes facts and reality with fiction.This book was the primary reason that I moved to Northern California, hoping to make a new life as a hippie cyberpunk, so in that way I have to credit it with changing my life.Lots of early 90s idealism here, and the whole thing feels a lot like a book length _Rolling Stone_ article about some hot new counterculture trend.When I first read it, the interplay of anecdote and cultural critique was really attractive to me the narratives made all these media hackers and psychonauts seem real and This book was the primary reason that I moved to Northern California, hoping to make a new life as a hippie cyberpunk, so in that way I have to credit it w...So wonderfully dated.About half this book is excellent, but somewhere around chapter 12 I started wanting to yell at Rushkoff It didn t help that, for the rest of the book, the focus was entirely uninteresting, either to me or 1993 nostalgia Cow a world I want to run around and play in, but the camera keeps focusing on all the wrong, uninteresting things.Also, there were several places where 15 seconds of research would have made it a lot less jarring the shee really EDIT I just So wonderfully dated.About half this book is excellent, but somewhere around chapter 12 I started wanting to yell at Rushkoff It didn t help that, for the rest of the book, the focus was entirely uninteresting, either to me or 1...Techno utopianism from a mid 90s POV well, it was written in the mid 90s At that point the internetoften referred to as cyberspace was heralded as a vehicle for the evolution of human consciousness The ravers, psychedelics word and hippies were going to use it as a means to raise human consciousness, and as a non chemical means to help us all access the spiritual But as we all know,in 2016 its all cat videos, Harambe memes and Donald Trump shitposting.Actually, I say that, but I Techno utopianism from a mid 90s POV well, it was written in the mid 90s At that point the internetoften referred to as cyberspace was heralded as a vehicle for the evolution of human consciousness The ravers, psychedelics word and hippies were going to use it as a means to raise human consciousness, and as a non chemical means to help us all access the spiritual But as we all know,in 2016 its all cat videos, Harambe memes and Dona...interesting topic but the guy can t write, smhA remarkable book about the early internet cyberspace culture What it lacks in narrative quality although it s very readable for non fiction, since it follows the researcher, his interviews etc it gives us in information about that era Throughout the book we see most of the founders of the cultures being into frugs, whe...Excellent book. Very prescient, as it covers the earliest years of the internet, but also a lotIt tells the story of what REALLY became of the counter culture movements of the 60 s as the tools of protest and rebellion becametechnologically centered, and the book really spells out the battle that is being waged between the power structure and hackers, and exposes some of the idealistic and not so idealistic motives of the latter This is a book I should have read 20 years ago Excellent book. Very presc...

Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace
  • English
  • 20 March 2019
  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • 1903083249
  • Douglas Rushkoff
  • Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace