12. cybernetic totalism- a set of six interconnected beliefs held by many of the initial developers and users of internet technologies.  This set is grounded in ideas about the inevitable universalization of  internet and bio-technologies and their impact upon society, humanity, and the fate of the world and roughly reduces all activities, works and lives in the world to simple transactions of information or electronic computations.

From Jaron Lanier's,  One-Half of a Manifesto- "Here is a partial roster of the component beliefs of cybernetic totalism: 1. cybernetic patterns of information provide the ultimate and best way to understand reality.  2. People are no more than cybernetic patterns.  3. Subjective experience either doesn't exist, or is unimportant because it is some sort of ambient or peripheral effect.  4. What Darwin described in biology, or something like it, is in fact also the singular, superior description of all creativity and culture.  5. Qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of information systems will be inexorably accelerated by Moore's law.  And finally, the most dramatic: 6. Biology and physics will merge with computer science (becoming biotechnology and nanotechnology), resulting in life and the physical universe becoming mercurial; achieving the supposed nature of computer software." (p.1)