by Erik Davis
Volta, Alessandro
Voltaire
Von Braun, Wernher
VRML (virtual reality mark-up language)
W
Wachowski brothers
Wagner, Richard
Wakefield, Margery
Waking Up (Tart),
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Walpole, Robert
Washington, George
Watson, Ian
Watson, James
Watson, Thomas, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Watts, Alan, 5.1, 5.2
Wavy Gravy
Weathermen, The
Webster, Sam
We Have Never Been Modern (Latour),
Weir, Bob
Weizenbaum, Joseph
WELL (Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link), 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, aft2.1
Wertheim, Margaret, 7.1, 7.2
West (U.S.), 4.1, 4.2
Westerns, 4.1, 4.2
Whale, James
Where Wizards Stay Up Late (Lyon),
Whitman, Walt
Whole Earth Catalog, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1
Whole Earth Review
Wiener, Norbert, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Williams, Raymond
Williamson, George Hunt
Wilson, Peter Lamborn
Wilson, Robert Anton, 4.1, 8.1
Winner, Langdon, 9.1, 9.2
Wired magazine, itr.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1
Witchcraft, 6.1, 10.1
Wolfram, Stephen
Women
as computers
emancipation of
machines and
Woods, Don, 7.1, 7.2
Woolston, Thomas
World Bank
World War II
World Wide Web, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2. See also Internet
Wozniak, Steven
Writing, 1.1, 7.1
Writing Space (Bolter),
X
Xanadu
Xerox PARC
X-Files, The (TV show), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, aft2.1
Y
Yates, Frances, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Year 2000 problem
Yin and yang
Yoga, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1, aft1.1
Yoruban religion
Y2K glitch. See Year 2000 problem
Z
Zen, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig),
Zeros + Ones
Zeus, 1.1, 1.2
Zimmerman, Michael
Zines
Zork (computer game),
About the Author
Micahel Rauner
Erik Davis is a fifth-generation Californian who resides with his wife in San Francisco. He is also the author of Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti), The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle), and Led Zeppelin IV (Continuum). His journalism and articles have appeared in Bookforum, The Wire, Boing Boing, Wired, The Village Voice, Gnosis, and many other publications, while his essays have been included in well over a dozen edited collections. A graduate of Yale University, he has lectured internationally on technoculture and the fringes of religion, and is earning his PhD in Religious Studies at Rice University. He hosts the podcast Expanding Mind, tweets @erik_davis, and can be contacted through his website, www.techgnosis.com.
