Many of us have been using the internet for a long time, but what have we learned from that experience and how, if at all, has it affected our relationships with our own bodies and with the physical world? Does technology push us away from nature or towards it? After wired, what comes next?
Paper to be given at the Electronic Culture and Communications Forum, Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, March 23-26 2005.
This paper develops ideas generated by Writers for the Future, an action research project funded by the UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to explore innovative ways in which writers might use the internet.