Chapter 5: Cybernetic Supremacy
Working the System: Computer operator and IBM System/360 mainframe, 1964.
Artwork by Alex Veness for forthcoming publication: Imaginary Futures, by Richard Barbrook (Pluto Press, 2007). Airbrush and watercolour on paper, 138mm X 221mm.
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.