The infection is deep and widespread. If nothing is done, Josef A will have the whole world subordinated to the computer.
Calculus contends that the internet was never a proper knowledge revolution. He speaks of the need for an intellectual revolution akin to the stone masons who, in building the great Cathedrals of Old Europe, wrested power from the priesthood. The Cathedral builders having acquired a precious ‘material’ knowledge of their own.
Calculus desires to be as free as the mountain air he breathes. What had appealed to Calculus, upon visiting the château for the first time, had been its very remoteness. Freedom is many things to many people. Calculus chooses to define it as an absence of traps. Networks, of course, are created to catch things; entrapments by definition.