Leary was tapping into an existing techno-utopian dream in that part of the world. FTA: >First published in his book Terra II (1974), it’s a neat summary of Le

Leary was tapping into an existing techno-utopian dream in that part of the world. FTA: >First published in his book Terra II (1974), it’s a neat summary of Leary’s vision of the future of the human species, the next step in human evolution. Yet we have poems like 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'[0] by Richard Brautigan written in 1967. The same year Brautigan was made Poet-in-Residence at CalTech. This isn't to say that Leary didn't help shape the modern and stable form of west coast techno-utopianism we see today. I think he did, however he did this by amplifying a subset of the already existing techno-utopian ideas into the greater sphere of American culture. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...