Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century

by Mark Dery (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.45

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.23

  This text examines the computer revolution and the rise of a high- tech underground counter culture, whose members are using the technology in ways never intended by the manufacturers. It examines would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brain power with smart drugs and mind machines, and on-line swingers seeking cyber-sex and cyber-punk roboticists. Dery poses the question, will this technology liberate or enslave us in our emerging digital world?