You ever read What The Doormouse Said? It's all about how LSD influenced the birth of the Internet. Basically the Stolaroffs introduced all the most important technologists in silicon valley (e.g. Doug Engelbart) to LSD. These folks picked up on the mystical ideas that 'everything is one' and 'we're all connected', and set out to recreate this metaphysical vision using computer hardware. And now YC is building software that runs on this platform. Just goes to show that reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it's stranger than we can suppose.