"Umberto Eco in his essay, Travels in Hyperreality, saw the emergence of the age of simulation. He recognized that when simulations promise us something better than real, it is often a disguised sales pitch." Commentary on Eco's commentary.

A brief bit of wit from Eco himself on personal computing operating systems, and the religious divide betwixt the two main churches.

"Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco expounds upon the Net, writing, The Osteria, libraries, the continental divide, Marshall Mcluhan,and, well, God." A profile/interview.