Weekly Column

The Internet Is Acid, and America Is Having a Bad Trip

How we can hallucinate our way back to sanity

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It’s been 25 years since I first turned the manuscript of my first book, Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace, to the publisher. Well, 27 years if you count the first publisher, which canceled the book because they thought the internet would…