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==[[:Category:Post-War Cybernetics]]== | ==[[:Category:Post-War Cybernetics]]== | ||
During and after the Second World War, emerging tendencies in scientific thought coalesced into a new field which [[Norbert Wiener]] called [[Cybernetics]], formed at the crossroads of computer science, electrical engineering, biology and social science. [[Post-War Cybernetics]] exercised a major influence on thinking about society, information, the environment and the use of computers. The concepts of [[Cybernetics]] were taken up by the [[Whole Earth]] movement. More recently, the arrival of the Internet spawned derivative terms such as [[Cyberspace]] and [[Cybernaut]]. | During and after the Second World War, emerging tendencies in scientific thought coalesced into a new field which [[Norbert Wiener]] called [[Cybernetics]], formed at the crossroads of computer science, electrical engineering, biology and social science. [[Post-War Cybernetics]] exercised a major influence on thinking about society, information, the environment and the use of computers. The concepts of [[Cybernetics]] were taken up by the [[Whole Earth]] movement. More recently, the arrival of the Internet spawned derivative terms such as [[Cyberspace]] and [[Cybernaut]]. | ||
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| + | ==[[:Category:Sixties Counterculture]]== | ||
| + | The [[Sixties Counterculture]] laid the foundations for most of the mouvements described hereafter. (To be continued...) | ||
==[[:Category:Whole Earth]]== | ==[[:Category:Whole Earth]]== | ||
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==[[:Category:Hacker Generation]]== | ==[[:Category:Hacker Generation]]== | ||
The [[Hacker Generation]] of the late 1970s was formed by the individuals and communities that created the hardware and software of the personal computer. It includes people such as [[Steve Wozniak]] and [[Steve Jobs]], who created the [[Apple Computer]], and [[Lee Felsenstein]], an electronic engineer who along with Wozniak and Jobs was a member of the [[Homebrew Computer Club]]. | The [[Hacker Generation]] of the late 1970s was formed by the individuals and communities that created the hardware and software of the personal computer. It includes people such as [[Steve Wozniak]] and [[Steve Jobs]], who created the [[Apple Computer]], and [[Lee Felsenstein]], an electronic engineer who along with Wozniak and Jobs was a member of the [[Homebrew Computer Club]]. | ||
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| + | ==[[:Category:Postmodernism]]== | ||
| + | While the term [[Postmodernism]] was first coined around the 1870s, it only came to wide public attention with the rise of [[Postmodern Architecture]] in the lat 1970s. (To be continued...) | ||
==[[:Category:Web]]== | ==[[:Category:Web]]== | ||
