IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 13:06:29 CDT 2009


"'Someday,' she prophesied, there will be computers for this ...'"
(IV, Ch. 1, pp. 6-7)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf


"that HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/quotes
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/contents.html
http://www.dailywav.com/program.php?Program=2001
http://www.2001halslegacy.com/interviews/clarke.html


"right back at you"

http://www.bing.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.davesearchesshitforyou.com/


"any lot in the L.A. basin"

http://www.lavote.net/RECORDER/Document_Recording.cfm


"all the way back to the Spanish land grants"

http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/level3_ussg3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranchos_of_California#External_links


"whatever you want, trust me, it's coming"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity


"the real non-sci-fi world"

Vs. the fictional Pynchonian world?  Not to mention ...


"Aunt Reet's bordering-on-the-supernatural sense of the land"

... or any any/all those actually all that opposed?  Let me know ...



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