Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tyrant
15 Apr 2018
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It beggars belief that this novel was first published in 1957. Its speculations on technology and industry are so prescient as to be uncanny. Not merely ahead of its time," this book is supremely anachronistic. It doesn"t appear that technology replaces nature or man the way junger thinks he dreams up romantic constructions. Gunther oliass, dangers of tomorrow (dec. 4, 1957) Life and property had to be protected, real estate and transportation closely guarded, blackmail and crime counteracted. Anyone who reached a certain prominence could no longer rely on public protection; he had to have a cudgel in the house. Here was our situation: the men from manchester [in wwi] had shown us what was what. So we arrived with tanks to smoke them out"; whereupon they treated us with a new surprise. The weapons vanished in the abyss like fleeting images, like pictures thrown into the fire.
