timothy-leary-chaos-cyber-culture

We aie mutatinginto another species-liom Aquaiiato the Teriaiium, and now we'ie movinginto Cybeiia.We aie cieatuies crawlingto the centei of the cyberneticwoild. But cyberneticsare the stuff of which theworld is made. Matter is simply frozen information. ... The critics of the information a^e see everythingin the negative,as if the quantityof information can lead to a loss of meaning. Theysaid the same thin^about Gutenberg.. . . Never before has the individual been so empowered.But in the information a^e youdo have to ^etthe signalsout. Popularizationmeans makingit available to the people. Todaythe role ofthe philosopheris to personalize, popularize,and humanize computerideas so that peoplecan feelcomfortable with them. ... The fact is that a few of us saw what was happeningand we wrestled thepower of LSD away from the CIA, and now the powerof computers awayfrom IBM, justas we rescuedpsycholo^ away from the doctors and analysts. In every generation I've been part of a ^roup of peoplewho. like Prometheus, have wrestled with the powerin order to hand it back to the individual."-TIMOTHY LEARY. PATAPHYSICS MAGAZINE (1990)