EPISODE · Dec 18, 2020 · 1H 16M
9. The Californian Ideology│Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
from Auxiliary Statements · host Jack & Dan
On this week's show Jack and Dan continue their expedition to America's testcase state in all things deplorable and dastardly; California! Come listen to how a motley band of hippies, armed with sci-fi novels and utopian dreams, came to define the dystopian reality of the nascent computer age. Our hosts learn how things went so disastrously wrong and are forced to consider just how attached they they are to their “wetware”. Reading: The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
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On this week's show Jack and Dan continue their expedition to America's testcase state in all things deplorable and dastardly; California! Come listen to how a motley band of hippies, armed with sci-fi novels and utopian dreams, came to define the dystopian reality of the nascent computer age. Our hosts learn how things went so disastrously wrong and are forced to consider just how attached they they are to their “wetware”. Reading: The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
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9. The Californian Ideology│Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
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