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Technology History
An annotated collection of 2 books on technology history, spanning 2006 to 2010. Featuring works by Fred Turner, Tim Wu — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Fred Turner, 2006 · University of Chicago Press
How the "do-it-yourself" culture of the 1960s — the counterculture, the Whole Earth Catalogs, the communes — transformed into the culture of Silicon Valley. The connection between a playful, experimental spirit and real…
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu, 2010 · Alfred A. Knopf
Every communications medium follows a cycle: it is born open and decentralised, matures, and ends up concentrating into monopolies or oligopolies. The telephone, radio, television, cinema — all followed the same pattern.…