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[Tore Rye Andersen]

Janós:
 
> "Someday there will be computers for all this"
>
> A fake after-the-fact forecast quite similar to a fake prophecy
> written down around 1970, projected back to 1945:
>
> "Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines. You are
> the wave of the future." (GR 258)

Even though the prophecy in GR is also projected back in time, I don't
think it is as 'fake' as the one in IV. Even in 1970, it wasn't all done
by information machines, and even though the ARPAnet u.s.w. came into
being at that time, I still tend to see Semyavin's words as genuinely 
prophetic, as opposed to the 'prophecies' in late Pynchon. Cf. my post
on this from a couple weeks ago:
 
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=139642&sort=author
 
> I think the switch from dope subculture to IT with all its
> consequences is a key background story in IV.

Good call. I agree.
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