The issues of technoculture are not confined to the reception of media images, but extend into the very core of our concepts of cognition, identity, and biology. As the material world becomes more explicable by algorithm and replicatable in the laboratory, the mysteriousness and power which formerly clothed what has seemed both monolithic and heterogenous is revealed as a complex set of relationships characterised by multiplicity, flux and decentralisation. The construction of nature has cultural ramifications. Nature and culture have colluded to produce a closed ecosystem of human thought. Our conceptual inheritance impedes talk about an environment characterised by flux and interpenetration and in which human technology can have a 'natural' role.
Technology suggests new metaphors, analogies and myths to overcome the silence of the stars.
Technology spawns new ways of seeing which fracture the nature we have inherited. We take core samples of microorganisms deep below the Earth's surface while Voyager 2 travels beyond the solar system. The results are displayed on our homepages the transformed and reproduced again and again. Thus commences the cyber-born ecology of a new myth. Developments like genetically modified trees suggest that technology and nature can only be artificially separated.