All together now barks the God 'Technolog' 'heads down and look at hose little screens'. Have we been duped by 12 year old boys from Silly con Valley who are making billions in the process.
As Thomas Pynchon wonders in Bleeding Edge is whether the internet is a zone of innocence and freedom or, as Maxine’s father puts it, citing its origins in Cold War strategy, a ‘magical convenience that now creeps like a smell through the smallest details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there’s no innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, (the 'Cold War) the worst possible. As it kept growing it never stopped carrying in its heart a bitter-cold death wish for the planet.’
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