This essay in book form will explain why William Blake is more relevant than ever in the twenty-first century. Blake is commonly seen in terms of twentieth-century counterculture ideas such as sexual liberation, anti-authoritarian individualism, the 'New Age', etc., thanks to the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley and Jim Morrison. All well and good, but to Generation Z these concepts are painfully obvious or even a little naff. The question now is what aspects of Blake will the twenty-first century focus on? And as it happens, there are a lot of interesting ideas in Blake that map on to the networked metamodern generation nicely - his awareness of the 'mind forged manacles', to give one example, is a central part of being 'woke'.