Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismNeuropolis!William Blake calls it "Spiritual Fourfold London." [1] William Gibson calls it "cyberspace." [2] : I call it "Neuropolis!": city of neurons, the neural net metropolis. A nervous system runs among us, dispersed and continuous. Logged on, we become citizens of that city, nodes in a network that links human and machine. Citizenship is connection, whether your motherboard is carbon or silicon. Albion awake! Notes1. William Blake, Jerusalem, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman, newly rev. ed. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988). 2. William Gibson, Neuromancer (New York: Ace, 1984), Page 3. Navigation |