"Against the backdrop of the ever-present #weird, the #technoutopian visions of early #InternetPioneers were taking shape, and being primed for corporate intervention. And this is why #McLuhan’s prescient sound bites pop up throughout #HighWeirdness. The weird and the drugs had been there all along, but now the #mediaecology was connecting people with any and all ideas faster than ever, to the extent that #consciousness became “a tweakable or #hackable #interface.”

https://lithub.com/plunging-into-the-1970s-altered-states-of-awareness/