Bringing the Body to the Table

Everything is changing. We are living through a period of unparalleled technological and cultural transformation. A large percentage of this seismic change comes from making the transition into worldwide electronic interconnection. It seems increasingly right to see the era through which we are now passing as the end of the Gutenberg age and the beginning of the digital age. More and more, we conduct business, get information, look up answers to puzzling questions, and even find intimate partners through electronic means. The communications aspect of the still-emerging digital reality delights and startles. We can watch world events as they unfold in real time—often unfiltered by government or financial interests. We can carry on instantaneous conversation with one or more people anywhere on the globe at any hour of

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