Index

Contents

  Acknowledgments   VII

  Introduction  1

1 The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor  11

2 Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture    41

3 The Whole Earth Catalog as Information Technology    69

4 Taking the Whole Earth Digital                      103

5 Virtuality and Community on the WELL                141

6 Networking the New Economy                          175

7 Wired                                               207

8 The Triumph of the Network Mode                     237

  Notes   263
  
  Bibliography   291

  Index   313