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The Technological and Ideological Moves towards Romantic Counterculture,…

- - - - Made the IBM systems seem like rigid and expensive machines instead of experimental tools #
- - - - Romantic-individualistic sense of the self as a creative tinkerer which fuelled a counterculture
    - - Used a romantic style of writing and supported the technological counterculture
        
        "From the emphasis on truth discovered in personal exploration, to the celebration of dreams, visions, and revolution, to the suspicion of technical rationality, and to the strategic use of vernacular language, Nelson has crafted his own version of orthodox romantic style." (Streeter 58)
  - - - Nonlinear and playful style of writing
        
        "We are as gods and might as well get used to it"
  - - - "For Weizenbaum, the compulsive desire to interact with computers enabled the mindless tinkering - the technological innovation without regard for human consequence - that was the object of his concern. Hacking was the opposite of art." (Streeter 52)
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