That's why I remain sort of old fashioned in clinging to a kind of vitalist romantic instinctivist core. They're smart, sweet, and light. But there's no intense rebellion. And so, they're not vital. How one could subvert a Wired future and the Net.
Future is an overhyped term.
I think that we would be mistaken to underestimate the speed and density of change being wrought by technical revolution. And I think that there is the sense, for anybody paying attention, that we are in motion. We're not in homeostasis. We're in process. And that process is necessarily goal oriented.