Cuckoo, Cuckoo

The inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, has joined the great Peter Max painting in the sky, but the dreams he spawned live on. Publisher and sometime savant Tim O’Reilly tells the BBC, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the World Wide Web, that a true “global consciousness” is at last emerging, thanks to the Net. “It really is going to happen,” he says, and “it’s going to happen mediated by computers.” It is, he continues, “the most profound change since the advent of literacy.” Might I just point out here that both LSD and the Web were invented in Switzerland?

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