Humanist Critique
For the marchers of the Free Speech Movement, as for many other Americans throughout the 1960s, computers loomed as technologies of dehumanization, of centralized bureaucracy and the rationalization of social life, and, ultimately, of the Vietnam War. Yet, in the 1990s, the same machines that had served as the defining devices of cold war technocracy emerged as the symbols of its transformation. Two decades after the end of the Vietnam War and the fading of the American counterculture, computers somehow seemed poised to bring to life the countercultural dream of empowered individualism, collaborative community, and spiritual communion.
- Fred Turner, Introduction
- Fred Turner, Introduction
Begin this path: Humanist Critique
- Punch card chaos
- Humanist Critique: Fail Safe (1964) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Humanist Critique: The Electronic B.R.A.I.N.
- Humanist Critique: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Humanist Critique: Monkee vs. Machine (1966)
- Humanist Critique: That Touch of Mink (1962)
- Humanist critique: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
- Humanist Critique: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Humanist Critique: Star Trek (1966-69)
- Humanist Critique: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
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