AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Or for a more in-depth treatment, Fredrick Turner's book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, and there's an upcoming biography by John Markoff. And a documentary We Are As Gods is in the process of being released.
Cybernetics is a weird field and has lot of interesting figures in it (Andrew Pickering's The Cybernetic Brain is a history of some of the Briish weirdos like Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask) See weird computer science
critique of SV culture by a Stanford humanities guy. Nothing I hadn't heard before, so a waste of time. Builds a bit on From Counterculture to Cyberculture but not in a very interesting way