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本文档仅供译言网图书试译专用 译者招募活动网页地址：/view/43665/269810 姓名： 译言用户名： 联系邮箱： 手机号码： QQ/MSN/Google Talk： 个人简介： 试译摘自本书第四章，全部试读见此：/Misc/Chicago/817415_chap4.html From Counterculture to Cyberculture试译全文： Although the Whole Earth Catalog bridged cybernetics and the back-to-the-land movement, however, Brand himself had done little to address computers per se. That began to change in 1972, when, in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine, he gathered together the descendants of midcentury military research on computing and the members of the emerging countercultural hobbyist community. Not long after the Catalogs Demise Party, the editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, commissioned Brand to investigate the Bay area computer scene. Brand produced one of the first (and still one of the most widely quote) pieces of journalism to link corporation- and government-funded computer research to New Communalist ideals: Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death among the Computer Bums. 请在此处填写译文 As its title suggests, the piece focused on the legendary computer game Spacewar. In October 1972 Brand and Rolling Stone photographer Annie Liebowitz slipped into the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, convened a crew of programmers and researchers, and staged their own Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics. Long-haired graduate students clustered around a PDP-10 time-sharing computer, entered a few commands, conjured up tiny triangular spaceships on the computers monitor, and proceeded to blast each other out of the sky. In his story, Brand recorded not only the commands, but also the frantic delight of the players. He then turned their pleasure into evidence of the countercultural force of Spacewar, of computers, and of the freewheeling collaborative culture that surrounded them. Ready or not, computers are coming to the people, Brand explained in the articles first lines. Thats good news, maybe the best since psychedelics. Stanfords AI lab was the most bzz-bzz-busy scene Ive been around since the Merry Pra