From counterculture to cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation fred turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of san francisco bay area entrepreneurs stewart brand and the whole earth network. From counterculture to cyberculture stewart brand the whole earth network and the rise of digital utopianism fred turner chicago university of chicago press 2006 327 pp 2900 cloth when the diggers a radical group of improvisational actors associated with the antiwar movement during the 1960s. From counterculture to cyberculture stewart brand the whole earth network and the rise of digital utopianism by fred turner 6 jun 2008 paperback on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers from counterculture to cyberculture stewart brand the whole earth network and the rise of digital utopianism by fred turner 6 jun 2008 paperback. Fred turner from counterculture to cyberculture stewart brand the whole earth network and the rise of digital utopianism university of chicago press 2006 book review by anna mccarthy stewart brand was the consummate networker the founder of the whole earth catalog. A well woven history of the 60s counterculture as personified in stewart brand and its evolution into the cyberculture that came to prominence in the 1990s with the internet boom and in some small part informs the digital culture of today