Burning Man is the Protestant Church of Silicon Valley — Fred Turner at The Interval

Описание: Stanford historian Fred Turner argues that Burning Man is a place to practice the deepest values on which the engineering culture of Silicon Valley depends. It is to contemporary new media production what the Protestant Church was to industrial production in the 19th century: an emblem of new modes of manufacturing.

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   • Technology & Counterculture from World War...  

Stanford historian Fred Turner discussed how concerns about mass media in the 01940s set the stage for not only the psychedelic 01960s, but also today's social media. This presentation connects the subjects of Turner's two most recent books: From Counterculture to Cyberculture and The Democratic Surround. Fred Turner is a two-time fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) who are co-presenting this talk.

"Technology & Counterculture from World War II to Today" was given on November 15, 02016 as part of The Long Now Foundation's “Conversations at The Interval” Salon Talks. These hour long talks are recorded live at The Interval, our bar, cafe, & museum in San Francisco. Since 02014 this series has presented artists, authors, entrepreneurs, scientists (and more) taking a long-term perspective on subjects like art, design, history, nature, technology, and time. To follow the talks, you can:

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