The author
Robert Andreas Fischer is a cultural anthropologist works and lives in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been active as a researcher and artist on topics of communication aesthetics since 1961. Author of Science Fiction stories, experimental film & videomaker, Mail-Art networker, man-machine art & research. He has done field-work as an anthropologist in the desert of Central Australia (1991/92) and in Lapland (1994/95). (More under: Robert Andreas Fischer).
A research paper ("Proto-historic roots of the network self - Wired Aborigines and the emancipation of the alphabetic imperialism") can be found here.