"..every utopia is, almost by definition, a sterile desert, unfit for human occupation."
Lewis Mumford in Frank Manuel, Utopias an Utopian Thought, p10

"We have no idea in hell what we are doing to ourselves with these new media technologies, and no consistent way even to discuss the subject."
Bruce Sterling, 21C, #1/96, p60



"We are moving from an age of hardware into what might be called an age of Vaporware."
Mark Dery, 21C, #1/96, p52



"Many users hate having to choose, it cuts deep into the basic assumption that what is most enjoyable about a story is that it is being told to you, freeing the audience to be immersed in the telling."
Gabriel Lafitte, Arena Magazine #22, April-May 1996, p43



"Every force evolves a form."
Shaker Proverb in olers Hayen, Seven American Utopias, p32