http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=492 "the matrix of a reminiscing cogitation, shuffling and collating ‘things’ stored in a random-access memory scheme" Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=492&cpage=1#comment-218 John Wed, 02 May 2007 16:18:14 +0000 http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=492#comment-218 I was thinking more along the lines of cyberpunk, but yes, it's all over science fiction. But, then, we can find the desire to hack ourselves in myth and legend, such as the story of Icarus. Stories of magic, too, I'd suggest, are often rooted in the desire to hack ourselves, which shouldn't be that much of a surprise if we consider Arthur C. Clarke’s "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws" rel="nofollow">Third Law</a>": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I was thinking more along the lines of cyberpunk, but yes, it’s all over science fiction. But, then, we can find the desire to hack ourselves in myth and legend, such as the story of Icarus. Stories of magic, too, I’d suggest, are often rooted in the desire to hack ourselves, which shouldn’t be that much of a surprise if we consider Arthur C. Clarke’s “Third Law“: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

]]> http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=492&cpage=1#comment-217 bonnie kyburz Wed, 02 May 2007 03:42:31 +0000 http://www.jpwalter.com/machina/?p=492#comment-217 thomas pynchon saw it all coming. in Gravity's Rainbow, where intelligence officers infiltrate other peoples' dreams. fabulous. thomas pynchon saw it all coming. in Gravity’s Rainbow, where intelligence officers infiltrate other peoples’ dreams. fabulous.

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