But, whereas in the past we were supposed to fear the destructive powers of technology, we're now invited to celebrate 'the emergence of a post- biological, cyberorganic line of evolution'. The ending might be more optimistic, but we've read the book and seen the film before. Allegedly it emerges from the 'Internet, Cyberspace and I-way'. Yet 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 work on the production line building the PCs.
Someone has to design the hardware which will control the flow of data across the networks. Someone has write the software to enable people to use the Net. And all of us participate in communicating across cyberspace with one other. Without human activity, the Net is nothing but an inert mass of metal, plastic and sand. We are the only living beings in cyberspace.