The Quest
In 1995, I undertook a Quest: to ride around Australia on a bicycle.
My thesis examines the historical evolution of the logical, social and (to a lesser extent) physical structures of the Internet, and the connections between these structures.
Here is no life, no sound but light and motion. I wait by the statue as Sharkey circles his world in his white space-suit, eyes and mouth frozen closed in a faint smile.
Arrakis. Dune. Desert planet. The great houses of the imperium vie with each other for the precious spice.
On a cold clear Saturday in early September the invitees to one of author William Keen's literary luncheons gathered at his house in Boston. The year was 1927.