Anyway, speaking of zines, there's a
new issue
of Signum.
That is, of course, the webzine published by west-coast new-media
eminence Tiffany Lee Brown, and contributed to by a
cast of digerati (Mark Dery, Carla Sinclair and Douglas Rushkoff are
just some of the names). And it has a good piece looking back on
the MONDO 2000 cyberculture revolution, its hopeful beginnings and
how it all fell apart and devolved into an orgy of hypercapitalism.
In 1990, Virtual Reality mainman Jaron Lanier expressed the sense of utter
desolation that was pervasive at the time, saying "Virtual Reality is
*something.* And it's been a long time since we had something."