In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
--Marshall McLuhan

New York City

Marvin Minsky: born and raised in New York City
Ted Nelson: born and raised in Greenwich Village
Abbie Hoffman: made his home during the 1960s in the Lower East Side (now called the East Village)
Richard M. Stallman: born and raised in Manhattan