Three recent Pynchon pieces online

[Otto]

"Writers of all descriptions are stampeding to buy word processors.
Machines have already become so user-friendly that even the most
unreconstructed of Luddites can be charmed into laying down the old
sledgehammer and stroking a few keys instead."
http://themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html

"You look at Windows 95 blooming on to the screen, and you think,
Magic. But for those who understand the system down to molecular
level, nothing magical remains (...)."
http://themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_stone.html