Who are the Zippies? from Wikipedia. Someone edit this to read "are" instead of "were"

In May 1994 Wired Magazine published an article titled "Here Come the Zippies!". The cover of the magazine featured a psychedelic image of a smiling young man with wild hair, a funny hat, and crazy eyeglasses. Written by Jules Marshall, the article announced an organized cultural response to Thatcherism in the British Isles.

"There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles. The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, and lowered stress levels. Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon be the Woodstock of the '90s?

The article describes Zippies, according to 50-year-old Fraser Clark, as "Zen-Inspired Professional Pagans", or "hippies with zip". Apparently well known in the UK where the media had tried to pin various labels on them such as cyber-crusties, techno-hippies, and post-ravers, the Zippies leader Fraser Clark intended to bring a Pronoia (psychology) attitude to the United States. This effort was dubbed the Zippy Pronoia Tour to US.

In his book "The World is Flat", Thomas L. Friedman describe Zippie as "huge cohort of Indian youth who are first to come of the age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade and information revolution by turning itself into world's service center".

These Zippies were a new-age kind of hippie who embraced modern paganism, trance music, rave, cyber-tech and enterpreneurism in an effort to bring about a better world.