Chapter 1—The Terrain

Footnote 1.1:

The three Net-hostile quotes are from Joshua Quittner’s “Back to the real world: New books from the front lines of the information revolution urge cyberspace cadets to get a life,” _Time_, April 17, 1995, page 56.

Footnote 1.2:

Luddites, of course, were the loom smashers of the nineteenth century who protested automation.

Footnote 1.3:

Goldberg is author of the book _Questions and Answers about Depression_ (Charles Press, 1993), but the book is clearly _not_ his main reason for being on Walkers—mentions of _Questions_ have been well within limits. Sheer altruism is clearly his true motive.

Footnote 1.4:

Reid Kanaley, “Computers to the rescue: Internet becoming a worldwide safety net,” _Philadelphia Inquirer_, January 17, 1995, page 1.

Footnote 1.5:

Kanaley.

Footnote 1.6:

John Schwartz, “On the information net, creativity is its own reward,” _Washington Post_, April 10, 1995, page 23 of the “Washington Business” section. Schwartz is a _Post_ reporter and columnist.

Footnote 1.7:

Quittner.

Footnote 1.8:

Stoll himself noted the Maine-Texas allusion.

Footnote 1.9:

Irwin Lebow, _Information Highway & Byways: From the Telegraph to the 21st Century_ (Piscataway, New York: IEEE Press: 1995), page 17. A good book. Highly recommended. It even comes with the _Walden_ allusion, although from a rather different perspective from that of Stoll.

Footnote 1.10:

Thanks to my friend Andy Oram for the buffalo analogy.

Footnote 1.11:

With hypertext links, readers could click on mentions of the _Star Tribune_ and immediately go from my area of the World Wide Web to the one where the newspaper had posted the West article. I didn’t reproduce the material; I just pointed my readers in its direction.