In sum, the idea of a link between humans and machines is not dumb, and indeed, it's very intriguing. But so far, there's little hardcore scientific evidence to back it up. Harping on these themes and their implications won't hurt Wired's circulation in the least. Science fiction continues to be a booming market. Now this one I hadn't thought of until David Bennahum brought it up.
History is evil because history contradicts the idea that cyberspace is an evolving organism.
History shows that c-space was designed, not destined, by conscious visionaries with an agenda. That is why the history of technology is never, ever covered in Wired with one exception - business stories about huge flops or successes. So it is okay to talk about Atari or Apple. As Rolling Stone's readers aged, we started seeing more retrospective look backs, best-of lists and so on, and those issues, some pushed as collector's items, have sold well. As Bennahum pointed out to me at some other point, this sort of tribal thinking is thriving in the 90s in a variety of arenas.