It probably goes back farther, but the earliest take on it that is in not bored with brian elwell's Silicon Breakdown. http:// www.notbored.org/silicon.html, but I also have 50 other documents that mention some relation between the two ideas. I would tend to argue that it arises in the technological critiques of the late 50's through early 70's as a difference between the IBM and related type of computing and the university computing and its derivatives in startups, and similar institutions. On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ericka Menchen Trevino wrote:
I've heard, in Lessig's book "code" and informally in conversation about the link between free-market secularism / Libertarianism and programmers / technologists. Are there good resources that addresse how this link historically evolved and why it happened? (If it, in face, did?).
Ericka Menchen Trevino Graduate Student University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Communication
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