This document refers to key movements in the early 1990s that have led to – and have strongly influenced – how society thinks about and uses technology and specifically the internet.
As it turned out, this did not happen, but the idea was documented here and referred to repeatedly in a variety of different media, especially by academics working in Internet-related fields of study.
Although many of the Future Culture list were vehemently opposed to making the archives of their postings publicly available, a selection[1] of the emails that were exchanged during the initial period found their way to the web.
An in-depth coverage of the events leading up his death, a hoax suicide threat, and the painful aftermath has been written [2] by a Future Culture's member.
[5][6] The list has been mentioned in at least two books introducing the reader to the world of cyber cultures, Victor J. Vitanza's CyberReader 2/e, "an anthology of readings on the new technologies and their impact on social and individual identities"[7] and in Jonathan Marshall's ethnography of the mailing list Cybermind, Living on Cybermind [8] It is mentioned as "landmark event" by Andrew Edmond in his article "Pioneers of the Virtual Underground: A History of our Culture" in issue 1, 1997 of The Resonance Project.
The topic of the mailing list, as stated in the accompanying, but rarely updated, Future Culture FAQ is to be a forum for "real-time discussion of cyberculture/new-edge/technoculture" which is a deliberately vague description of its contents.
At the worst of times, one can say that it's a mailing list of continuous thread drift that is often concerned with retrocomputing, film and book reviews, and idle conversation.