Online U 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 Taylor's subject was not so much technology as truth -- a truth that, by the time of Heidegger, could no longer be fixed or even stated, a truth that was always hiding or sliding away. There was something thrilling about excitement so intense on a subject so abstruse; I could see why Taylor had become a cult figure on campus. If GEN ever offers Cyberscapes, the students who take it won't feel what those students felt; that would be like eating dinner over the Internet. The Net, at least as it exists now, can convey ideas but not the flavor that comes with them, not the thrill of the unexpected. But then, Mark Taylor knows that. When I told him that he seemed to want to knock down the walls of the university, Taylor said, "No, I want to pierce them." He wants the walls to be screens. He wants to let what is outside in and what is inside out. And there is, he says, one thing he knows for sure: "These changes are coming, as sure as the tide, and trying to avoid these changes is like telling the tide to turn back."