SOC356Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Californian Ideology, Hypermedia, Hitech
Document Summary
The convergence of the media, computing, and telecommunications into hypermedia was long predicted and finally happened at the end of the 20th century. Capitalism tries to diversify and intensify the creative powers of human labor. Integrating different technologies can create something important. Global telephone networks can produce and receive unlimited amounts of information. Writers, hackers, capitalists and artists from the west coast of us define a heterogeneous orthodoxy for the coming information age called the californian ideology. This new faith comes from cultural bohemianism of san francisco and the hi-tech industries of. Silicon valley ( free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies ) This optimistic vision of the future is embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, innovative capitalists, social activists, trendy academics, futurist bureaucrats and opportunistic politicians. Advocates wish to create a new jeffersonian democracy" where everyone can express themselves freely within cyberspace.