Luddite essay

[jbor]

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>From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at pophost.com>


> " . . . It has taken no major gift of prophecy to see how these
> three curves of development might plausibly converge, and before too long. "
>
> Come on. They never diverged.

Perhaps not. But you are arguing *against* what Pynchon is saying.

best



~~~
    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
                                                    ~~~