This video describing Web 2.0 by an anthropology professor at Kansas State is formally interesting, but I'd quibble with some technical details and worry it's a bit too utopian.

Archive of world's fair ephemera at The University of Maryland.

A new book discusses how the utopianism of the sixties counterculture influenced the computer industry.

I'm not sure why Sterling insists on describing himself as a mere "science fiction writer," since his most influential stuff seems to be his nonfiction work. He talks here about his latest book and environmental issues.

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