As a young writer, I built edifices around the inspired improvisations of my elders, reflecting on how the muse, when we called on her, seemed exhausted by a fabulous party the night before, to which we hadn't been invited. We were everywhere, doing our jobs, passing through the stages of life, feeling either younger or older than our years, fighting crucial battles where it counted. Jen Bekman, the community director of Electric Minds , told me that she grew up despairing of her generation witnessing anything of the same magnitude as the landing of men on the moon. By routing around corporate media, the Net offers to my generation an alternative to the spectacle that denied us leading roles in the shared narratives of our culture for so long. For many of us, getting online was the beginning of an era in which it feels like there are many good songs left to pull from the living air - working, at last, with the stuff of imagination, our fingers in the bits.
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