Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: technology in literature Message-ID: <370019@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 17:39:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.370019 Posted: Mon Jun 24 17:39:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:57:39 EDT References: <840@gloria.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 16 >/* 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