A sketch of Pynchonian politics

[Jane O' Sweet]

Jane O' Sweet wrote:
> 
> I doubt this can be proven. I don't think Pynchon is
> prescient and think he satirizes those that claim to be so
> and those that believe they have x-ray vision.


If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out
for will come -- you heard it here first -- when the curves
of research and development in artificial intelligence,
molecular biology and robotics all converge. Oboy. It will
be amazing and unpredictable, and even the biggest of brass,
let us devoutly hope, are going to be caught flat-footed. It
is certainly something for all good Luddites to look forward
to if, God willing, we should live so long. Meantime, as
Americans, we can take comfort, however minimal and cold,
from Lord Byron's mischievously improvised song, in which
he, like other observers of the time, saw clear
identification between the first Luddites and our own
revolutionary origins.