Still Nabokov-free WAS Re: NN Gibson re Orwell

[Malignd]

<<I disagree.  In the Foreword he follows up on what
he's written about the Internet in his Stone Junction
intro (a concrete example of Internet use to the
detriment of civil liberties)...>>

He writes:  In "our" 1984, after all, the integrated
circuit chip was less than a decade old, and almost
embarrassingly primitive next to the wonders of
computer technology circa 2003, most notably the
internet, a development that promises social control
on a scale those quaint old 20th-century tyrants
withtheir goofy moustaches could only dream about.>>

Beginning and end of his analysis.

<<... in Vineland, where government control of
computer networks serves as a plot element.>>

Vineland is fiction.

<<Fact is, the Internet is controlled by corporations,
which are licensed by governments to manage and
implement the various software and hardware systems
that are the Internet ...>>>

As is, say, a television network, but I'm no more
controlled by the Internet than I am by HBO.







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