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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html
Summary
The article views nowaday's "cyberculture" or "counterculture 2.0" as continuation of the counterculture of the 60s, which was supported by the "Whole Earth Catalog". Both, counterculture and cyberculture, have means to oppose and question authority. Moreover, the founder of the "Whole Earth Catalog" also founded the online WELL, which is part of the cyberculture. Both of these helped creating amateur's who act as professionals and have access to all information. Freedom is given to everyone and hierarchies are omitted which create a change in government-people relationship. Democracy and utopianism are ideas to which both counter and cyber cultures were developed to achieve. However no one realizes the connection between the two cultures and that they both work towards the same goals.
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