From Copelco

Contents 1 Ideas 2 The Well 3 People 3.1 Stewart Brand 3.2 Cyberpunk Culture 3.2.1 Neal Stephenson 3.2.2 William Gibson 3.2.3 Bruce Sterling

Ideas

• community
  • commune
    • the farm (tennessee), including one time directors of The WELL Matthew McClure and Cliff Figallo
• decentralization
  • universities/corporations
• personalization
• bringing people together from all over
• neuromancer
  • blurring of the boundary between real and virtual
• cyber culture
• global village

• Michael Benedikt, author of Cyberspace: First Steps, takes a crack at an over-arching definition in his 1994 book: - "Cyberspace: A word from the pen of William Gibson, science fiction writer, circa 1984 . . . A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world's computers and communication lines . . . The tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world . . . A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment . . . Its corridors form wherever electricity runs with intelligence . . . The realm of pure information . . . "
• "The telephone: speech without walls. The phonograph: music hall without walls. The photograph: museum without walls. The electric light: space without walls. The movie, radio and TV: classroom without walls. Man the food-gatherer reappears incongruously as information- gatherer. In this role, electronic man is no less a nomad than his Paleolithic ancestors.

The Well

• Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan
• Total Cinema - Gene Youngblood

• http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/matei.html

People

Stewart Brand

• [From Counterculture to Cyberculture]

Cyberpunk Culture

Neal Stephenson

• Snow Crash
• [In the Beginning was the Command Line]

William Gibson

• Neuromancer

Bruce Sterling

• [Cybergreen]
• Hacker Crackdown