IVIV (1) There Will be Computers for This

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's been said before, but, rilly, what is the point of this
> "prophesy?"  REET senses the future, and it's computers?

Well, on the one hand, a note from my Ch. 1 hosting stint that I
apparently didn't send @ the time.  And on the other, e.g., ...

"There is simply too much of the 21st century here to see this as
merely a critique of the LA (or the America) of the 60s and what it
led to.  For there is a strange suggestion that 'perhaps' it all went
in the right direction: 'Someday. . . there’d be phones as standard
equipment in every car, maybe even dashboard computers.  People could
exchange names and addresses and life stories and form alumni
associations to gather once a year at some bar off a different freeway
exit each time, to remember the night they set up a temporary commune
to help each other home through the fog.'  In other words, Pynchon
seems to be suggesting that if what we’ve gained from history is the
ability to discern ourselves within a community of people, even if it
be of the Facebook type, and if this is all we have of the past, of
the perverted promise of it, then so be it.".

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