First came the fall of Communism. Then there was the advertising campaign for the beverage Fruitopia. Now the pitchmen for cyberspace, the so-called digerati, are promoting this virtual place where you are now as terra incognita, .
No question about it, the concept of utopia has been thoroughly degraded and commercialized.
Wired executive editor Kevin Kelly :
"The reason why the hippies and people like myself got
interested in [computers], is that they are model worlds,
small universes. They are ways to recreate civilization.
We get to ask the great questions of all time: What is
life? What is human? What is civilization? And you ask it
not in the way the old philosophers asked it, sitting in
armchairs, but by actually trying it. Let's try and make
life. Let's try and make community." --
New York Times Magazine
