A lot of the naivete about the power of drugs and rock to create a new and better planet dissipated from the magazine's pages when it dissipated in the real world. Just as the naivete about computers and digital technology is rapidly dissipating now. Drugs and some form of rock are still around, and lord knows, computers will be, too, for as far ahead as anyone can see. But attitudes shift with reality. It is alive.
Human beings are mere pollinators of some nascent machine-consciousness.
This is very important to Wired, because if that's true then everything today is fated and not designed by human beings. The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization' of Kevin Kelly's book. These are issues Rewired has touched on again and again . And again and again . In sum, the idea of a link between humans and machines is not dumb, and indeed, it's very intriguing.