ValleyZen interviews Fred Turner about the counterculture roots of cyberculture:
Check out today’s satori-inducing video with Fred Turner – Stanford Professor, acclaimed author, and expert in Silicon Valley counterculture. He says, “The distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer is not as great as we might think.” Zen takes center stage as Turner shows its powerful influence from early cyberculture to today’s Valley. Watch Turner trace the Valley’s direct lineage from the cyber-pioneers who were also think partners with Zen.
From Counterculture to CybercultureHighlights from the video. Prof. Turner on:
* Why Zen resonates with Valley minds
* Zen roots of the Internet
* Ken Kesey — Valley Zen forefather?
* Stewart Brand on Experience“Because of [the Valley’s] exposure to Zen, Eastern philosophy, beat and hippie culture, this area values experience and values machines that make experiences very differently than other areas might. You can be an intellectual out here and make technology—that’s a neat thing!”
ValleyZen interviews Fred Turner about the counterculture roots of cyberculture:
Check out today’s satori-inducing video with Fred Turner – Stanford Professor, acclaimed author, and expert in Silicon Valley counterculture. He says, “The distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer is not as great as we might think.” Zen takes center [...]
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ValleyZen is at home on SmartMobs. And it is appropriate because Howard, you wrote the historic first comment on ValleyZen way back on Jan. 31 2008. (Of course Howard you are always first).
Prof. Turner’s video is satori-inducing so it should come with a disclaimer! He allowed ValleyZen to delve into his tranquil environment at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. As we walked in the falling mist and he quoted from Richard Brautigan’s “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” — the surroundings did begin to look like a cybernetic meadow!