[Others argue, though, that the sheer number of voices in cyberspace tends to drown out those of cults.] There's between 30 to 40 million Web pages out there, ... They could have done just as well to go out to the San Diego bluffs and throw a message in a bottle.

Now someone can jump online and find out a great deal from your voter registration or the DMV. What used to be considered private is out there for everyone to look at.

Now someone can jump online and find out a great deal from your voter registration or the DMV, ... What used to be considered private is out there for everyone to look at.

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.

Though Mark has not been overworked in either game he has done enough to convince me to sign him.

I was walking down Granville Street, Vancouver's version of "The Strip," and I was looking into one of the video arcades. I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids inside were. It was like one of those closed systems out of a Pynchon novel: a feedback loop with photons coming off the screens into the kids' eyes, neurons moving through their bodies, and electrons moving through the video game. These kids clearly believed in the space games projected. Everyone I know who works with computers seems to develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen, someplace you can't see but you know is there.