bleeding edge

[Mark Kohut]

The newspaper of record, The New York TImes, now calls it The Bleeding Edge, but like The Big Sleep, Bailey's words still sound right....w speed of writing, etc.....

----- Original Message -----
From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>; ""“pynchon-l at waste.org“"" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: bleeding edge

Have to say, it does sound like another installment in a Doc Sportello
series. Inherent Vice & Bleeding Edge both have that noirish feel
while also promising broader associations. And IV did contain various
mentions of technology (like DARPA) that helped set up the world we
live in today.

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Don't forget. DARPA is how the internet started.....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
> Cc: ""“pynchon-l at waste.org“"" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: bleeding edge
>
> sounds alot like the mindset of of the US military--pay and pay until
> it causes massive bleeding
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/bleeding-edge-thomas-pync_n_2410631.html?utm_hp_ref=books
>>
>> A bit more, still speculative, always exciting...
>>
>> On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:37 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> sounds right up Pynchon's alley here:
>>
>> Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies incorporating
>> those so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and
>> lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of
>> them.[1][2] The term bleeding edge was formed as an allusion to the
>> similar terms "leading edge" and "cutting edge". It tends to imply
>> even greater advancement, albeit at an increased risk of
>> "metaphorically cutting until bleeding" because of the unreliability
>> of the software or other technology.
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