Chapter 3: Cold War Computing

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Chapter 3: Cold War Computing

Moonstruck: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut John Glenn and the Aurora space shuttle from the 1968 movie 2001: a Space Odyssey.

Artwork by Alex Veness for forthcoming publication: Imaginary Futures, by Richard Barbrook (Pluto Press, 2007). Airbrush and watercolour on paper, 221mm X 138mm.

Cooperative creativity and participatory democracy should be extended from the virtual world into all areas of life. This time, the new stage of growth must be a new civilisation.