"The recent emergence of stochastic networks, such as lamers, n00bs, and skiddies of Anonymous and the urban camping movement of Occupy describe not only political realities, but new ways of being in the world. What makes these networks special isn't their 1337 hackers, it's their hypercreative inclusiveness. They grow out of the internet and mobile telephony, and are invariably revolutionary and disruptive in nature. People are themselves as part of collectives, but also part of something larger, stranger, and new in the world. They learn differently, build strong and weak ties differently, and coordinate in powerful and fast ways. Net collectives reverse our assumptions on how people act together: they publish, then select. They act with agency at once, and respect comes later. Internal dissent is often integral to stability. This talk will explore how the tools hackers have built are creating a new kind of unintended cyborg. Instead of part human, part machine, the next great cyborg to walk on the Earth is part community, part network."