ABSTRACT
The whole wide world is no longer big enough to hide in. Everywhere is connected to everywhere else. Everywhere – the air of the most desolate desert, the wind above the waves of the most remote part of the oceans: everywhere – is laced with electronic chatter. We once believed that the world was packed, wingtip to wingtip, with invisible and omnipresent angels whispering the word of God to His entire creation, leaning through our skulls to speak to our souls. Now our flesh is continually swept by an invisible and omnipresent rain of information, quantum packets, strings of zeros and ones, on its way from somewhere to somewhere else. How different are our dreams? ( McAuley, 2002:328)
