Biography Mark Dery 
is a cultural critic. His writings on fringe culture, technology, and the arts have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wired, Mondo 2000, Virtual City, New Media, The Discovery Channel Online, and The Village Voice. He is the author of Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century [Grove Press, http://www.well.com/user/markdery/], a critique of fringe computer culture.