The Electronic Revolution is an essay collection by William S. Burroughs that was first published in 1970 by Expanded Media Editions in West Germany.

Part one, entitled "The Feedback from Watergate to the Garden of Eden", invokes Alfred Korzybski’s views characterising man as "the time binding machine" due to his ability to write.

Burroughs sees the significance of a written word as a distinguishing feature of human beings which enables them to transform and convey information to future generations.

Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz has put forward an interesting theory as to the origins and history of this word virus.

He postulates that alteration in inner throat structure were occasioned by a virus illness ....The referred German Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz is another of Burroughs' inventions.