Moulthrop’s “revolution”

Once again, we have a verbose article [The New Media Reader, by Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort, MIT Press, 2003] that could be stated briefly. On page 697, Moulthrop quotes Thomas Pynchon with “paranoia” as “the realization that everything is connected…” If the writers feel that way, perhaps they need either "consciousness healing" or medical attention!

The babble continues with more theories until page 701 when the author discusses that hypertext, when taken to its limit can become “every bit as institutionalized and conservative as broadcast networks.” And, Gibson called cyberspace “a Cartesian territory where scientists of control define boundaries over power lines.”

Then on page 702, the Moulthrop quotes Timothy Leary with “reality pilot.” At that point, I decided to get a Wiki reading on Leary, and later found http://www.llp.armstrong.edu/reese/courses/4700/cornwell/p3.htm to get a better idea of “reality pilot.”

Kelly Cornwell, a student in Savannah, wrote an academic essay, discussing the term, “cyberpunk.” In her essay, she said that Leary calls cyberpunks:
"inventors, innovative writers, technofrontier artists, [...] elegant hackers, [...] media explorers, [... and] all those who boldly package and steer ideas out there where no thoughts have gone before." (369, "The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot.").

Kelly wrote that the Greek definition of “kubernetes” became the Latin “gubernetes.” Kubernetes is the mariner or pilot who has to think independently. Gubernetes is to control actions or behavior, to direct or regulate.
It seems to me that these two terms are a good refection of the two directions that “cyberspace” can take us, according to our readings.

I feel that the most of the academic authors we have been reading in the New Media Reader could each have described their concept within a few pages. What does this say about the power or tradition of literature?