2002

    Mondo 2000 is here to cover the leading edge in hyperculture. We'll bring you the latest in human/technological interactive mutational forms as they happen.
    We're talking Cyber-Chautauqua: bringing cyberculture to the people! Artificial awareness modules. Visual music. Vidscan Magazines. Brain-boosting technologies. William Gibson's Cyberspace Matrix--fully realized!
    Our scouts are out there on the frontier sniffing the breeze and guess what? All the old war horses are dead. Eco-fundamentalism is out, conspiracy theory is démodé, drugs are obsolete. There's a new whiff of apocalypticism across the land. A general sense that we are living at a very special juncture in the evolution of the  species.

Article by Vivian Sobchack

As a reporter, Douglas Rushkoff breaks the usual mold. His beat isn't some generic East Side or the latest bloody crime, but the geography of human desire. His novel Ecstasy Club draws from the same vein as his earlier, nonfiction works, which have chronicled the rise of cyberdelic culture, our species' latest attempt to transcend its earthly bounds. Covering raves, latter-day Be-Ins and the Internet, Rushkoff reveals a new tribalism centered on art, drugs and technology, each contributing to the liberation -- or evolution -- of the spirit.