ALT To those gasping for breath in the ozone-rich atmosphere of superlative cyberspace promises, the crucial question is not necessarily why outrageous promises are offered, but rather precisely how do such promises sustain themselves against their own speculative appearance? How do the utterances of scien-tists, engineers, hucksters and marketeers literally move and shape worlds, channel flows of institutional funding, and exert enormous influence in shaping the meaning of life? How is it that such claims are offered and sustained? And how, in the midst of our critique, can we do justice to our frank pleasure in the cybernetic gadgets, information spaces, and cyborg bodies of the wired world?