Strange Weather

Ross examines the way in which technocratic elites (military, corporate, scientific) have set the agenda for public opinion and analyses the challenges to those elites posed by popular and alternative culture. He explores groups-such as New Agers, science fiction cyberpunks and fans, who have marginalized themselves by choice and by their potential resistance to a government which is controlled by scientists and technical experts. These groups seem to be communities of shared interests that encourage participation by all, however Ross is not blind for the limitations of their idealistic ideas.
The book's other theme, perhaps its most important one, is that science and technology, like economics and politics, are the products of social formations.