Unlike our fellow species, we can transform ourselves through thought and action. We're not the blind objects of genes or memes. We are the subjects of history - even if it is not always in circumstances of our own choosing. The Net is a creation of human labour. Someone has to dig holes in the road to lay the fibre-optic wires.
Someone has to write the software to enable people to use the Net.
Without human activity, the Net is nothing but an inert mass of metal, plastic and sand. We are the only living beings in cyberspace. Richard Barbrook does not believe that there is such thing as an autonomous entity, located inside the technology. The Memesis statement regards machines and information as autonomous things outside our control. Yet, in reality, both technology and culture are expressions of the social relationships between individual humans.