[SLA-SF] Fwd: [SALT] Short-nowish but MIGHT be of interest to some

[Deb Hunt]

This looks interesting and it's free.
Deb


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> From: Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org>
> Date: October 27, 2006 6:28:02 PM PDT
> To: salt at list.longnow.org
> Subject: [SALT] Short-nowish but MIGHT be of interest to some
> Reply-To: services at longnow.org
>
>
>
> It's recent history that feels like ancient history--- how self- 
> organized networking got from MIT's Second World War scientists and  
> engineers through Whole Earth and Wired to phenomena like Google,  
> eBay, and Burning Man.  (One thread amongst a dense weave.)   
> Admission appears to be free.  Convenient location for those in mid- 
> Peninsula.  The event has no direct connection to The Long Now  
> Foundation.
>
>                                 --Stewart Brand
>
>>
>> From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth  
>> Catalog
>>
>> A symposium featuring Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold  
>> and Fred Turner
>>
>> Thursday, November 9 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM
>>
>> Cubberly Auditorium, Stanford University
>>
>>  http://www.stanford.edu/~shyeo/wholeearth.htm
>>
>> During the 1960s, student marchers chanted "Do not fold, spindle  
>> or mutilate!" as they railed against computers and the Cold War- 
>> era military industrial complex computers seemed to represent. But  
>> within just three decades, computers had become emblems of  
>> countercultural revolution. This symposium will feature a  
>> conversation with three people who played key roles in that  
>> transformation: Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog,  
>> Kevin Kelly, former executive editor of Wired magazine and author  
>> of Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization and New  
>> Rules for the New Economy, and Howard Rheingold, author of The  
>> Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier and  
>> Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. The discussion will be  
>> moderated by Fred Turner, assistant professor of communication at  
>> Stanford and author of the new book From Counterculture to  
>> Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise  
>> of Digital Utopianism.
>>
>> This event is sponsored by the Stanford University Libraries, the  
>> Department of Communication, and the American Studies Program.
>>
>> It will be introduced by Henry Lowood, of the Stanford University  
>> Libraries, and followed by a public reception.
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________________
>> Fred Turner
>> Assistant Professor
>> Director of Undergraduate Studies
>> Dept. of Communication
>> Building 120
>> Stanford University
>> Stanford, CA 94305-2050
>> O) 650-723-0706
>> Fax) 650-725-2472
>>  http://fredturner.stanford.edu
>
>

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