II Cybernetic Frontiers

Stewart Brand, Gregory Bateson

Technology

A short 1974 volume that juxtaposes two pieces on cybernetics and early computer culture. The first part presents Brand's conversations with cybernetician and anthropologist Gregory Bateson on the philosophical implications of cybernetic theory. The second reprints Brand's 1974 Rolling Stone article on early computer hackers and the Spacewar gaming culture, situating personal computing within the counterculture.