1984 Foreword: Internet and social control

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote: 
> Isn't one of the key words here "promises"? 

Couldn't agree more.  

> that it's something which *might* be used for that
> purpose at some
> undisclosed future time. A prophesy, in other words.

Given its origins in Cold War paranoia plus the way
governments and corporations are already using the
Internet, Pynchon's statement about the Internet's
promise as a tool for tyrants seems quite reasonable.


>     [...] 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. (p. xvi)
> 


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