Berner's “astronaut of innerspace” stream of consciousness “survival book” to help expand the mind without the use of drugs; an avant garde work that is, like most works of the Fluxus Movement, difficult to describe. Though published as a book in 1972, The Innerspace Project is a product of the late 1960s San Francisco counterculture comprised of articles written in The San Francisco Chronicle between 1967-68. There are numerous illustrations and several photographs throughout. Of great interest is the computer generated photographic print of Berner on the back cover (highly advanced for its time) by Les Earnest, an important early computer programmer/counterculture anarchist involved in the ARPAnet startup program and best known for the invention of the Finger Protocol network protocol. Earnest co-headed SAIL at stanford, and was among the earliest Silicon Valley “geeks” who was early influence to Steve Jobs. There is also a fold out Apollo mission color photo end plate of the Earth as seen from the moon. An interesting blend of counterculture attitudes and bleeding edge early technology.
The innerspace project
