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Mark D. Pesce is an American-Australian author, researcher, engineer, futurist and teacher.

✵ 8. December 1962
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Famous Mark Pesce Quotes

“I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.”

Mark Pesce

An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html

“Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.”

Mark Pesce

An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html

“Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.”

Mark Pesce

Tales of Un-DARE-ing Do http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/undaringdo.html

“Communication becomes the defining characteristic of homo sapiens; we are the species that speaks. We utter the words that create our world, and have learned to take our words and translate them into the ethereal play of zeros and ones, lay them out, at the speed of light, first on a wire, then a radio wave, and lately, on a beam of light, so that the voice, once constrained by mouth and ear, now straddles the entire planet in thirty millionths of a second, messages pinging back and forth, not unlike the meeting points of a synaptic gap, using photons as neurotransmitters, and each network router the equivalent of a synapic junction, deciding whether to activate or extinguish each message that crosses the continents, connected now in a seamless, endless web of knowledge, more than two billion pages, more than any one of us could ever read or know, the collected and collective intelligence of a species that seems to have made information the central mystery of culture, the project of civilization, and the goal of being.”

Mark Pesce

From the narration to <i> Becoming Transhuman http://www.webearth.org/bt.pdf</i>

“I skipped Burning Man this year and realized something. It’s become a cult. And it’s about time we all woke up and recognized it.”

Mark Pesce

McBurners http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?id=mcburners

“I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X… because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes along with that generation, it may have something to do with the fact that "Never Mind the Bollocks" was released when we were 16-years-old and that was really the album that crystalized a generation.”

Mark Pesce

An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html

Mark Pesce Quotes

“Doesn't it seem as though the thrill's gone out of it? Somehow Burning Man now feels like what Christmas becomes in your grown-up years: a lot of spending, a brief party, and twelve months of fond reminiscences.”

Mark Pesce

McBurners http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?id=mcburners

“We all know the extent of the hypocrisy which surrounds the War on Drugs; that it is, at essence, a Class War, or, if you will, a Race War, which criminalizes the undesirable elements of society – precisely the rationale behind the Marijuana Tax Act, which provided the legal ammunition to expel with those pesky Mexican immigrants in Texas and California back in the 1930s.”

Mark Pesce

Tales of Un-DARE-ing Do http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/undaringdo.html

“A child now entering first grade has never known a world without the Web; I want you, just for a moment, to try to imagine a world without the telephone, without electricity. It’s difficult to do, because both of these technologies are entirely commonplace, woven into the fabric of our culture so intensely it becomes nearly impossible to imagine a time before they existed. As electricity is for us, the Web will be for our children; an invisible field of knowledge that surrounds them, and infuses the entire world with instant answers to their requests. Within a generation, it won’t be important how much you can remember; that will have been replaced by how agile you are at acquiring the facts you need.”

Mark Pesce

Toys and the Playful World http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/WIT.html

“In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.”

Mark Pesce

An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html

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