This text examines the computer revolution and the rise of a high- tech underground counter culture, whose members are using the technology in ways never intended by the manufacturers. It examines would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their minds into computers, cyber-hippies who boost their brain power with smart drugs and mind machines, and on-line swingers seeking cyber-sex and cyber-punk roboticists. Dery poses the question, will this technology liberate or enslave us in our emerging digital world?
- ISBN10 0802115802
- ISBN13 9780802115805
- Publish Date 1 March 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grove/Atlantic
- Format Hardcover
- Language English