In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak
described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if
from a place inhabited by plague," and even seeking "subversion of
the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has come to be our
own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early
1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific
in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living.
Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which
the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved
themselves in science--of a certain type. Rejecting hulking,
militarized technical projects like Cold War missiles and
mainframes, Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both
small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops
on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy
Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate "high."
Groovy Science explores the experimentation and eclecticism that
marked countercultural science and technology during one of the
most colorful periods of American history.
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