You Do Not Know Us, Nor Do You Know Our World. Cyberspace Does Not Lie Within Your Borders. Do Not Think That You Can Build It, As Though It Were A Public Construction Project. You Cannot. It Is An Act Of Nature And It Grows Itself Through Our Collective Actions. "Now remember, those flames feed off of your soul." TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IS NEITHER ADDITIVE NOR SUBTRACTIVE. IT IS ECOLOGICAL. Governments Derive Their Just Powers From The Consent Of The Governed. You Have Neither Solicited Nor Received Ours. We Did Not Invite You. A READ-WRITE REVOLUTION INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES ARE WHAT IS WRITTEN, WHETHER BY READER OR WRITER. AUTHORSHIP IS AN INVITATION TO ACTIVE DESIGN. THE 'MESSAGE' OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IS COMPREHENSIVE AND DOMINEERING. THE COMPUTER ARGUES, TO PUT IT BALDLY, THAT THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEMS CONFRONTING US AT BOTH PERSONAL AND PUBLIC LEVELS REQUIRE TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS THROUGH FAST ACCESS TO INFORMATION OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE. A READ-WRITE REVOLUTION "The manual says you will soon feel the urge to feast upon the flesh of virgins. This can be overcome with an easily installed plug-in "Following" a link means leaving it for another lexia; "gathering" a relation means bringing things to a central place: whereas the disjunctive link is associated with travel. There is momentary silence. The ship jinks sharply left, It is brazen. The conjunctive relation is associated with locus, with an inherently structured lexia. I MEAN 'ECOLOGICAL' IN THE SAME SENSE AS THE WORD IS USED BY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS. ONE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE GENERATES TOTAL CHANGE. A READ-WRITE REVOLUTION THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAS RADICALLY ALTERED MAN'S ENVIRONMENT AND WAY OF LIFE, AND IT IS ONLY TO BE EXPECTED THAT AS TECHNOLOGY IS INCREASINGLY APPLIED TO THE HUMAN BODY AND MIND, MAN HIMSELF WILL BE ALTERED AS RADICALLY AS HIS ENVIRONMENT AND WAY OF LIFE HAVE BEEN. This page, by the way, is a reorganization of text from The Color of Television (1996) A hypertext fiction with Sean Cohen. My own text is also mixed in.