An argument has been made, quite soundly, that an ethereal, gnostic impulse historically impels the development of groundbreaking information technologies. Two citations for this assertion spring immediately to mind: Erik Davis’ wonderful tome, Techgnosis (see the earlier ‘seed-crystal’ essay), and Avital Ronell’s The Telephone Book which details Alexander Graham Bell’s desire to speak with the dead.

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