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2. Keith Thompson, Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1991), 93.
3. Whitley Strieber, Communion (New York: Avon, 1987), 229.
4. Philip K. Dick, VALIS (New York Bantam, 1981), 212.
5. Michael Heim, Virtual Realism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 144.
6. Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976), 213.
7. Andrew Ross, Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits (New York: Verso, 1991), 37.
8. Ken Carey, The Starseed Transmissions: An Extraterrestrial Report (New York: HarperCollins, 1982), 1.
9. Ibid., 35.
10. Ibid., 75.
11. Jonas, Gnostic Religion, 76.
12. Ibid., 50.
13. Wright, “Tim Berners-Lee.”
14. “Secrets of the Cult,” Newsweek, April 14, 1997, 30.
15. Kelly, Out of Control, 233.
16. Peter Fitting, “Reality as Ideological Construct,” in On Philip K. Dick, ed. R. D. Mullen (Terre Haute, IN: SF-TH, 1992), 101.
17. Bolter, Turing’s Man, 187–88.
IX. Datapocalypse
1. “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan,” 72.
2. Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, and William Toye, eds., Letters of Marshall McLuhan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 370.
3. Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961), 109.
4. Noble, Religion of Technology, 5.
5. Lubar, Infoculture, 81.
6. Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New, 201.
7. Ibid., 65.
8. Ibid., 192.
9. Michael Benedikt, “Introduction,” Cyberspace: First Steps (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991), 3.
10. Porush, “Hacking the Brainstem,” 122.
11. Mike Godwin, “The Backlash against Free Speech on the Net,” Computer Underground Digest 8:20 (March 6, 1996).
12. Geert Lovink, “Preface,” Bulldozer (Budapest: Media Research Foundation, 1997).
13. John Dewey, Experience and Nature, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Open Court, 1929), 138.
14. Acts 2:1–6.
15. Alphonse de Lamartine, “Gutenberg, the Inventor of Printing,” Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, vol. 2 (London: Richard Bentley, 1854), 308.
16. “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan,” 72.
17. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), 192.
18. Rev. 1:11.
19. Gamble, Books and Readers, 104.
20. Rev. 1:3.
21. Cited in Bolter, Writing Space, 104.
22. Louise Wilson, “Cyberwar, God and Television: Interview with Paul Virilio,” CTheory, December 1, 1994, http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=62.
23. Jean Baudrillard, “The Ecstasy of Communication,” in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster (Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983), 130.
24. Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick (New York: Harmony, 1989), 210.
25. Dick, VALIS, 219.
26. Ibid., 63.
27. Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death (New York: Daw, 1970), 101.
28. Philip K. Dick, “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later,” in I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, ed. Mark Hurst and Paul Williams (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), 4.
29. Ian Watson, “Le Guin’s Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator,” in On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies, ed. Richard D. Mullen (Greencastle, IN: SF-TH, 1992), 67.
30. Dick, “How to Build a Universe,” 5.
X. Third Mind from the Sun
1. Encyclopædia Britannica, 12th ed., s.v. “nature, philosophy of.”
2. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, trans. Norman Denny (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), 82.
3. “Researchers on Complexity Ponder What It’s All About,” New York Times, May 6, 1997, B9.
4. Turkle, Life on the Screen, 150.
5. Ibid., 160.
6. Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, “A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain,” Wired, June 1995, 108.
7. Ibid.
8. David Hudson, Rewired (Indianapolis: Macmillan Technical, 1997), 241.
9. Mark Pesce, “Ignition,” World Movers conference, San Francisco, January 1997, http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/Ignition.html.
10. Hudson, Rewired, 241.
11. Pierre Lévy, Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace, trans. Robert Bononno (New York: Plenum, 1997), 105.
12. Ibid., xxv.
13. Ibid., 104.
14. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), 32.
15. Václav Havel, Commencement Address, Harvard University, May 12, 1995, http://tinyurl.com/pc6xa3z.
16. Ibid.
17. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), 37–38.
18. Michael Zimmerman, Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), 75.
19. Ibid., 76.
20. Teilhard de Chardin, Future of Man, 54.
21. Ibid., 56.
22. Rev. 13:1.
23. Rev. 15–17.
24. Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October 59 (winter 1992), 3–7, http://www.spunk.org/texts/misc/sp000962.txt.
25. Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New, 202.
26. John Perry Barlow, post to Nettime, May 27, 1997.
27. Cited in Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, trans. and ed. Charles Southward Singleton (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970), pt. 2, 182.
28. Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control.”
29. Encyclopædia Britannica, 12th ed., s.v. “nature, philosophy of.”
30. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, trans. Bernard Wall (New York: Harper, 1959), 244.
XI. The Path Is a Network
1. Francis Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977), 2.
2. Ibid., 3.
3. Thich Nhat Hanh, “Engaged Buddhism,” in Entering the Stream: An Introduction to the Buddha and His Teachings, ed. Samuel Bercholz and Sherab Chödzin Kohn (Boston: Shambhala, 1993), 248.
4. Marvin Meyer, ed. and trans., The Gospel of Thomas (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992), 65.
5. Cited in George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 51.
6. Plant, Zeros + Ones, 12.
7. Raymond Kurzweil, The Age of Intelligent Machines (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), 165.
8. McLuhan, Understanding Media, 56.
9. Plant, Zeros + Ones, 124.
10. Lévy, Collective Intelligence, 217.
11. Herman Hesse, Magister Ludi, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Bantam, 1969), 6–7.
12. Ibid., 105.
13. Cited in Plant, Zeros + Ones, 123.
Afterword (2004)
1. McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 32.
Afterword 2.0 (2015)
1. Philip K. Dick, “The Android and the Human,” SF Commentary 31 (December 1972).
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