Pynchon and computers

[Jan Klimkowski]

Bonnie writes:
>I still haven't read this "luddite" article.  Can you give a reference?

"Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?" by Thomas Pynchon, New York Times, Sunday 28 
October 1984.  My copy was downloaded from an on-line database by an 
intrepid research librarian.

Stirred into rereading the piece -  which contains some very interesting 
thoughts on Science Fiction - I still feel that Pynchon is identifying the 
fact that by the early 1980s the CounterCulture was being irreversibly 
seduced by the potential of Technology to liberate rather than oppress.  And 
by the apparent impossibility and futility of taking a genuinely 
oppositional position against something which increasingly determines all 
aspects of our lives.

However, if I had to place a bet as to his own feelings, I would agree with 
Andrew and say that the Pynchon of the article was still siding with those 
Luddites....

Brotherly
jan