7 examples of countercultures in sentences
Many of these early technology and media pioneers would not have considered themselves to be part of a counterculture at all.
A US government policy requiring all firms working under Defense Department contracts to test their employees' blood and urine for illegal drug use led to a certain disconnection between most Silicon Valley firms and the majority of the fledgling computer counterculture.
Those of us in the counterculture saw in the internet an opportunity to topple the storytellers who had dominated our politics, economics, society and religion - in short our very reality - and to replace their stories with those of our own.
Like any other narrative, the extreme counterculture's saga of a 'new world order', directed by the Bush family, had to be wrapped around the new data.
In another model for group mind, this time celebrated among the rave counterculture, this connectivity was itself a pre-existing state.
These models for interactivity and coordinated behavior may have been launched in the laboratory, but they were first embraced by countercultures.
Similarly, the computer and Internet galvanized certain strains of both the pagan and the grassroots 'do-it-yourself' countercultures as the 'cyberpunk' movement, which was dedicated to altering reality through technology, together.