Still Nabokov-free WAS Re: NN Gibson re Orwell

[pynchonoid]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> yadda yadda

I give Pynchon the final word:

What has steadily, insidiously improved since then, of
course, making humanist arguments almost irrelevant,
is the technology. We must not be too distracted by
the clunkiness of the means of surveillance current in
Winston Smith's era. 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 with their goofy moustaches could
only dream about.
-Foreword to _1984_

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