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Because I am enamored of all things cyber, I decided to start this blog with an excerpt from Thea Von Harbou’s ‘Metropolis’, which novelised Fritz Lang’s film of the same name.

 

While the “machine” referred to here is a subterranean one, operated by workers beneath the city, the sentiment of this excerpt is transferable; expressing the way the many people perceive the potential of cyberspace, computers and the internet today.  

 

The machine was a universe to itself. Above the deep mysteries of its delicate joints, like the sun’s disc, like the halo of a divine being,stood the silver spinning wheel, the spokes of which appeared, in the whirl of revolution, as a single gleaming disc. This disc filled out the back wall of the building, with its entire breadth and height. [There was] no machine in all Metropolis which did not receive its power from this heart.