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San Francisco in the 60’s

About the birth of Silicon Valley

The Virtual RevolutionBASTOGNE Célien

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SUMMARY Introduction Hippies and counter-culture Mario Savio’s speech Libertarianism The Well Links between Counter-culture and Internet Conclusion

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INTRODUCTION After the World War II, rise of the hippie, counter-culture,… San Francisco as a center of liberal activism Web roots Culture of free will

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WHAT WERE HIPPIES ? Life is about being happy Rejection of established institutions, state control, legal system,… Promotion of free love, sexual liberation, drugs (LSD),… Body & Mind freedom Folk music and psychedelic rock

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AND THEIR COUNTER-CULTURE MOVEMENT?

The post-World War II baby boom Distinction from the anti-authoritarian movements Individual freedom Sexual freedom Against the war

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MARIO SAVIO’S SPEECH

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LIBERTARIANISM

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LIBERTARIANISM Political philosophies Minimalist Government Autonomy Freedom of choice

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A virtual community

Legacy of the counter-culture

Founded by Steward Brand & Larry BrilliantConferences

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A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY One of the oldest community Internet forums, email, shell account, web pages All kind of topics, called Conferences

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STEWARD BRAND & LARRY BRILLIANT

They founded The Well in 1985

Writer Physician, Epidimologist

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CONFERENCES General subject Public/Private Health, business, regions, politics,… And even Sex, from Hardcore to gentle

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LEGACY OF THE COUNTER-CULTURE

On The Well, you are free You say what you want And talk with who you want

That is the spirit of the counter-culture

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LINK BETWEEN COUNTER-CULTURE AND INTERNETHippie/Counter-culture

Equal accessEqual rights

Equal expressionEqual power

InternetEqual accessEqual rights

Equal expressionEqual power

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TECHNOLOGY In his 1986 essay "From Satori to Silicon Valley“, cultural historian Theodore

Roszak pointed out that Apple Computer emerged from within the West Coast counterculture. Roszak outlines the Apple computer's development, and the evolution of 'the two Steves' (Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the Apple's developers) into businessmen. Like them, many early computing and networking pioneers - after discovering LSD and roaming the campuses of UC Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT in the late 1960s and early 1970s - would emerge from this caste of social "misfits" to shape the modern world.

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CONCLUSION The counter-culture is the web root Internet is the legacy of the counter-culture

InternetCounter-culture

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