| | Amazon.com: Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace: Books: Douglas Rushkoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Rushkoff takes the reader on an elegant tour de force of the vast realm called "cyberia." With an uncanny ability to infuse humor and insights into his subject matter, he never lets the reader down. |
 | | And all of the wide-eyed fantasizing about decentralized spirituality and some wonderful fin de siecle millenial rapture spurned on by virtual reality are no longer dangerous or deluding, they can be seen in context, as thought waves that are spilled out of more optimistic time periods with exponential technological growth. |
 | | The connect the dots game that Rushkoff plays is pretty astute, as well: the hippy connection, the second wave optimism that the 90s proposed to reconcile the "defeat" of the 60s, the fulmination of rave culture around these ideas that arrived in Berkely. |
| www.amazon.com /Cyberia-Life-in-Trenches-Hyperspace/dp/0062510096 (2749 words) |