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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: technology in literature
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 17:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 17:39:00 1985
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>/* colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) / 10:44 am  Jun 18, 1985 */

>There is simply nothing in the Sarnoff statement
>that will bear scrutiny, for it ignores the nature of the medium, of
>any and all media, in the true Narcissus style of one hypnotized by
>the amputation and extension of his own being in a new technical
>form.

>It has never occurred to
>General Sarnoff that any technology could do anything but _add_
>itself on to what we already are."

I don't follow these explanations (but then, perhaps I'm hypnotized . . . :-).
Please eleborate.

						Mike Sykora