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Podcast: Reimagining the Internet
Episode: 40 The Real Silicon Valley, with Fred Turner
Description: How did hippies living on communes help create the Internet? Is Mark Zuckerberg today's PT Barnum? What can we learn from 17th Century Protestantism about inequality in Silicon Valley? Fred Turner, perhaps the definitive historian of the Internet and counterculture, joins us for a thrilling conversation about how we need to shake post-WWII politics to make not just a better Internet, but a better world.
For links to projects mentioned and a full transcript of this episode, please visit https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/47-fred-turner
Key takeaways:
1. Communes were insular, and so was the first Internet community created by back-to-land hippies.
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