Index

Table of Contents
Introduction : crossed wires	3
I	Imagining technologies	14
II	The alchemical fire	49
III	The gnostic infonaut	92
IV	Techgnosis, American-style	123
V	The spiritual cyborg	155
VI	A most enchanting machine	196
VII	Cyberspace : the virtual craft	226
VIII	The alien call	267
IX	Datapocalypse	299
X	Third mind from the sun	341
XI	The path is a network	376
Afterword : beyond the boom	397