Resuming for a moment my professionally ironic role of nptech skeptic, I can't recommend highly enough this video (or this audio) of Stanford prof Fred Turner discussing his new book.
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Fred Turner on the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Submitted by Jason Z. on Wed, 2006-12-06 09:46. cyberculture | digital utopianism | fred turner | history | nptech | sociology
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