Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture-Giselle Lopez
Hello classmates! I am Giselle Lopez and my response is from Fred Turner’s reading Counterculture to Cyberculture
In Turner’s reading “From Counterculture to Cyberculture” it is stated that technology has had a drift not only scientifically but in the way human beings perceive things as well. Turner makes a clear comparison on how technology has had a dramatically change in the economic growth. Technology came with the ideal of letting the “individual self” out; in addition, it also came with “the image of an ideal society”(Turner). What was once seemed as a feeling of neglecting for technology, it has shifted to be a dependent variable for humanity. The way technology is used nowadays has become as a indispensable source. On the other hand, technology has served as a platform of freedom in many ways. Certainly, technology is also often controlled by the big corporations, meaning that “the Internet would bring a rise of a new “digital generation” – playful, self-sufficient, psychologically whole—and it would see that generation gather, like the Net itself, into collaborative networks of independent peers”(Turner). Technology, once upon a time used as a military source primarily. Later on, during the 90’s the use of technology became more accesible to the general public than just the military platform. Technology has been always in a constant change and will continue to be.
