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AGRIPPA
(A Book of The Dead)
Text by William Gibson
Etchings by Dennis Ashbaugh
(C)1992 Kevin Begos Publishing
1411 York Ave.
New York, NY
All Rights Reserved
I hesitated
before untying the bow
that bound this book together.
A black book:
ALBUMS
CA. AGRIPPA
Order Extra Leaves
By Letter and Name
A Kodak album of time-burned
black construction paper
The string he tied
Has been unravelled by years
and the dry weather of trunks
Like a lady's shoestring from the First World War
Its metal ferrules eaten by oxygen
Until they resemble cigarette-ash
Inside the cover he inscribed something in soft graphite
Now lost
Then his name
W.F. Gibson Jr.
and something, comma,
1924
Then he glued his Kodak prints down
And wrote under them
In chalk-like white pencil:
"Papa's saw mill, Aug. 1919."
A flat-roofed shack
Against a mountain ridge
In the foreground are tumbled boards and offcuts
He must have smelled the pitch, In August
The sweet hot reek
Of the electric saw
Biting into decades
Next the spaniel Moko
"Moko 1919"
Poses on small bench or table
Before a backyard tree
His coat is lustrous
The grass needs cutting
Beyond the tree,
In eerie Kodak clarity,
Are the summer backstairs of Wheeling,
West Virginia
Someone's left a wooden stepladder out
"Aunt Fran and [obscured]"
Although he isn't, this gent
He has a "G" belt-buckle
A lapel-device of Masonic origin
A patent propelling-pencil
A fountain-pen
And the flowers they pose behind so solidly
Are rooted in an upright length of whitewashed
concrete sewer-pipe.
Daddy had a horse named Dixie
"Ford on Dixie 1917"
A saddle-blanket marked with a single star
Corduroy jodpurs
A western saddle
And a cloth cap
Proud and happy
As any boy could be
"Arthur and Ford fishing 1919"
Shot by an adult
(Witness the steady hand
that captures the wildflowers
the shadows on their broad straw hats
reflections of a split-rail fence)
standing opposite them,
on the far side of the pond,
amid the snake-doctors and the mud,
Kodak in hand,
Ford Sr.?
And "Moma July, 1919"
strolls beside the pond,
in white big city shoes,
Purse tucked behind her,
While either Ford or Arthur, still straw-hatted,
approaches a canvas-topped touring car.
"Moma and Mrs. Graham at fish hatchery 1919"
Moma and Mrs. G. sit atop a graceful concrete
arch.
"Arthur on Dixie", likewise 1919,
rather ill at ease.
On the roof behind the barn, behind him,
can be made out this cryptic mark:
H.V.J.M.[?]
"Papa's Mill 1919", my grandfather most regal amid a wrack of
cut lumber,
might as easily be the record
of some later demolition, and
His cotton sleeves are rolled
to but not past the elbow,
striped, with a white neckband
for the attachment of a collar.
Behind him stands a cone of sawdust some thirty feet in height.
(How that feels to tumble down,
or smells when it is wet)
II.
The mechanism: stamped black tin,
Leatherette over cardboard, bits of boxwood,
A lens
The shutter falls
Forever
Dividing that from this.
Now in high-ceiling bedrooms,
unoccupied, unvisited,
in the bottom drawers of veneered bureaus
in cool chemical darkness curl commemorative
montages of the country's World War dead,
just as I myself discovered
one other summer in an attic trunk,
and beneath that every boy's best treasure
of tarnished actual ammunition
real little bits of war
but also
the mechanism
itself.
The blued finish of firearms
is a process, controlled, derived from common
rust, but there
under so rare and uncommon a patina
that many years untouched
until I took it up
and turning, entranced, down the unpainted
stair,
to the hallway where I swear
I never heard the first shot.
The copper-jacketed slug recovered
from the bathroom's cardboard cylinder of
Morton's Salt
was undeformed
save for the faint bright marks of lands
and grooves
so hot, stilled energy,
it blistered my hand.
The gun lay on the dusty carpet.
Returning in utter awe I took it so carefully up
That the second shot, equally unintended,
notched the hardwood bannister and brought
a strange bright smell of ancient sap to life
in a beam of dusty sunlight.
Absolutely alone
in awareness of the mechanism.
Like the first time you put your mouth
on a woman.
III.
"Ice Gorge at Wheeling
1917"
Iron bridge in the distance,
Beyond it a city.
Hotels where pimps went about their business
on the sidewalks of a lost world.
But the foreground is in focus,
this corner of carpenter's Gothic,
these backyards running down to the freeze.
"Steamboat on Ohio River",
its smoke foul and dark,
its year unknown,
beyond it the far bank
overgrown with factories.
"Our Wytheville
House Sept. 1921"
They have moved down from Wheeling and my father wears his
city clothes. Main Street is unpaved and an electric streetlamp is
slung high in the frame, centered above the tracked dust on a
slack wire, suggesting the way it might pitch in a strong wind,
the shadows that might throw.
The house is heavy, unattractive, sheathed in stucco, not native
to the region. My grandfather, who sold supplies to contractors,
was prone to modern materials, which he used with
wholesaler's enthusiasm. In 1921 he replaced the section of brick
sidewalk in front of his house with the broad smooth slab of poured
concrete, signing this improvement with a flourish, "W.F.
Gibson 1921". He believed in concrete and plywood
particularly. Seventy years later his signature remains, the slab
floating perfectly level and charmless between mossy stretches of
sweet uneven brick that knew the iron shoes of Yankee horses.
"Mama Jan. 1922" has come out to sweep the concrete with a
broom. Her boots are fastened with buttons requiring a special instrument.
Ice gorge again, the Ohio, 1917. The mechanism closes. A
torn clipping offers a 1957 DeSOTO FIREDOME, 4-door Sedan,
torqueflite radio, heater and power steering and brakes, new
w.s.w. premium tires. One owner. $1,595.
IV
He made it to the age of torqueflite radio
but not much past that, and never in that town.
That was mine to know, Main Street lined with
Rocket Eighty-eights,
the dimestore floored with wooden planks
pies under plastic in the Soda Shop,
and the mystery untold, the other thing,
sensed in the creaking of a sign after midnight
when nobody else was there.
In the talc-fine dust beneath the platform of the
Norfolk & Western
lay indian-head pennies undisturbed since
the dawn of man.
In the banks and courthouse, a fossil time
prevailed, limestone centuries.
When I went up to Toronto
in the draft,
my Local Board was there on Main Street,
above a store that bought and sold pistols.
I'd once traded that man a derringer for a
Walther P-38.
The pistols were in the window
behind an amber roller-blind
like sunglasses.
I was seventeen or so but basically I guess
you just had to be a white boy.
I'd hike out to a shale pit and run
ten dollars worth of 9mm
through it, so worn you hardly
had to pull the trigger.
Bored, tried shooting
down into a distant stream but
one of them came back at me
off a round of river rock
clipping walnut twigs from a branch
two feet above my head.
So that I remembered the mechanism.
V.
In the all night bus station
they sold scrambled eggs to state troopers
the long skinny clasp-knives called fruit knives
which were pearl handled watermelon-slicers
and hillbilly novelties in brown varnished wood
which were made in Japan.
First I'd be sent there at night only
if Mom's carton of Camels ran out,
but gradually I came to value
the submarine light, the alien reek
of the long human haul, the strangers
straight down from Port Authority
headed for Nashville, Memphis, Miami.
Sometimes the Sheriff watched them get off
making sure they got back on.
When the colored restroom
was no longer required
they knocked open the cinderblock
and extended the magazine rack
to new dimensions,
a cool fluorescent cave of dreams
smelling faintly and forever of disinfectant,
perhaps as well of the travelled fears
of those dark uncounted others who,
moving as though contours of hot iron,
were made thus to dance
or not to dance
as the law saw fit.
There it was that I was marked out as a writer,
having discovered in that alcove
copies of certain magazines
esoteric and precious, and, yes,
I knew then, knew utterly,
the deal done in my heart forever,
though how I knew not,
nor ever have.
Walking home
through all the streets unmoving
so quiet I could hear the timers of the traffic lights a block away:
the mechanism.
Nobody else, just the silence
spreading out
to where the long trucks groaned
on the highway
their vast brute souls in want.
VI.
There must have been a true last time
I saw the station but I don't remember
I remember the stiff black horsehide coat
gift in Tucson of a kid named Natkin
I remember the cold
I remember the Army duffle
that was lost and the black man in Buffalo
trying to sell me a fine diamond ring,
and in the coffee shop in Washington
I'd eavesdropped on a man wearing a black tie
embroidered with red roses
that I have looked for ever since.
They must have asked me something
at the border
I was admitted
somehow
and behind me swung the stamped tin shutter
across the very sky
and I went free
to find myself
mazed in Victorian brick
amid sweet tea with milk
and smoke from a cigarette called a Black Cat
and every unknown brand of chocolate
and girls with blunt-cut bangs
not even Americans
looking down from high narrow windows
on the melting snow
of the city undreamed
and on the revealed grace
of the mechanism,
no round trip.
They tore down the bus station
there's chainlink there
no buses stop at all
and I'm walking through Chiyoda-ku
in a typhoon
the fine rain horizontal
umbrella everted in the storm's Pacific breath
tonight red lanterns are battered,
laughing,
in the mechanism.
(DONE) Mail>

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The following 1600 words comprise William Jefferson Clinton's
Inaugural Presidential Address given from noon to 12:15 P.M.,
January 20, 1993.
[Capitals represent emphasis, extra commas represent pauses,
long pauses are represented by ellipses (. . .).]
Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address
My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.
This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak
and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in
the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage
to reinvent America. When our founders boldly declared America's independence
to the world, and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America,
to endure, would have to change. Not change for change sake, but change
to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
Each generation of American's must define what it means to be an American.
On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his
half-century of service to America. . .and I thank the millions of men
and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression,
fascism and communism.
Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new
responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but threatened
still by ancient hatreds and new plagues. Raised in unrivalled prosperity,
we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by
business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions
among OUR OWN people.
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news
travelled slowly across the land by horseback, and across the ocean by boat.
Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to
billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global.
Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, and ambition for
a better life is now universal.
We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people
all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking
our world, and the URGENT question of our time is whether we can make change
our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives
of MILLIONS of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when
most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all,
when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt
our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law abiding
citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot
even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made
change our friend.
We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps,
but we have not done so. Instead we have drifted, and that
drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy,
and shaken our confidence. Though our challenges are fearsome,
so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing,
hopeful people, and we must bring to our task today the vision
and will of those who came before us. From our Revolution to the
Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement,
our people have always mustered the determination to construct from
these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed
that to preserve the very foundations of our nation we would need
dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans,
this is OUR time. Let us embrace it.
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of
our OWN renewal. There is nothing WRONG with America that cannot be cured
by what is RIGHT with America.
And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift,
and a new season of American renewal has begun.
To renew America we must be bold. We must do what no generation
has had to do before. We must invest more in our own people,
in their jobs, and in their future, and at the same time cut
our massive debt. . .and we must do so in a world in which
we must compete for every opportunity. It will not be easy.
It will require sacrifice, but it can be done, and done fairly.
Not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for OUR own sake.
We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its
children. Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.
We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes
wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world
to come, the world for whom hold our ideals, from whom we have
borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibilities.
We must do what America does best, offer more opportunity TO all
and demand more responsibility FROM all.
It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing:
from our government, or from each other. Let us all take more
responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our
communities and our country. To renew America we must revitalize
our democracy. This beautiful capitol, like every capitol since
the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.
Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is
IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people
whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way.
Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are people
who want to do better, and so I say to all of you here, let us resolve
to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down
the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage, so that we
can feel the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make
our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent
experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays."
Let us give this capitol back to the people to whom it belongs.
To the new America we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home.
There is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is
domestic. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis,
the world arms race: they affect us all. Today as an old order passes, the
new world is more free, but less stable. Communism's collapse has called forth
old animosities, and new dangers. Clearly, America must continue to lead the
world did so much to make. While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink
from the challenges nor fail to seize the opportunities of this new world.
Together with our friends and allies, we will work together to shape change,
lest it engulf us. When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and
conscience of the international community is defied, we will act; with peaceful
diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary. The brave Americans
serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else
they stand are testament to our resolve, but our greatest strength is the
power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across the world,
we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands,
are with those on every continent, who are building democracy and freedom.
Their cause is America's cause. The American people have summoned the change
we celebrate today. You have raised your voices in an unmistakable chorus,
you have cast your votes in historic numbers, you have changed the face of
congress, the presidency, and the political process itself. Yes, YOU, my
fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now WE must do the work the
season demands. To that work I now turn with ALL the authority of my office.
I ask the congress to join with me; but no president, no congress,
no government can accomplish THIS mission alone.
My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.
I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service,
to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company
with those in need, reconnecting our torn community. There is so much
to be done. Enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young
in spirit, to give of themselves in service, too. In serving we recognize
a simple, but powerful, truth: we need each other, and we must care for
one another. Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate
ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution,
and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by
the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate,
might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation
can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity;
an idea infused with the conviction that America's journey long, heroic
journey must go forever upward.
And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st Century,
let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline,
and let us work until our work is done. The Scripture says: "And let us
not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
From this joyful mountaintop of celebration we hear a call to service in
the valley. We have heard the trumpet, we have changed the guard,
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Thank you, and God bless you all.
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The following 1600 words comprise William Jefferson Clinton's
Inaugural Presidential Address given from noon to 12:15 P.M.,
January 20, 1993.
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Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address
My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.
This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak
and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in
the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage
to reinvent America. When our founders boldly declared America's independence
to the world, and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America,
to endure, would have to change. Not change for change sake, but change
to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
Each generation of American's must define what it means to be an American.
On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his
half-century of service to America. . .and I thank the millions of men
and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression,
fascism and communism.
Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new
responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but threatened
still by ancient hatreds and new plagues. Raised in unrivalled prosperity,
we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by
business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions
among OUR OWN people.
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news
travelled slowly across the land by horseback, and across the ocean by boat.
Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to
billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global.
Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, and ambition for
a better life is now universal.
We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people
all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking
our world, and the URGENT question of our time is whether we can make change
our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives
of MILLIONS of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when
most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all,
when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt
our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law abiding
citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot
even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made
change our friend.
We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps,
but we have not done so. Instead we have drifted, and that
drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy,
and shaken our confidence. Though our challenges are fearsome,
so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing,
hopeful people, and we must bring to our task today the vision
and will of those who came before us. From our Revolution to the
Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement,
our people have always mustered the determination to construct from
these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed
that to preserve the very foundations of our nation we would need
dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans,
this is OUR time. Let us embrace it.
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of
our OWN renewal. There is nothing WRONG with America that cannot be cured
by what is RIGHT with America.
And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift,
and a new season of American renewal has begun.
To renew America we must be bold. We must do what no generation
has had to do before. We must invest more in our own people,
in their jobs, and in their future, and at the same time cut
our massive debt. . .and we must do so in a world in which
we must compete for every opportunity. It will not be easy.
It will require sacrifice, but it can be done, and done fairly.
Not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for OUR own sake.
We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its
children. Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.
We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes
wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world
to come, the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have
borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibiliti*es.
We must do what America does best, offer more opportunity TO all
and demand more responsibility FROM all.
It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing:
from our government, or from each other. Let us all take more
responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our
communities and our country. To renew America we must revitalize
our democracy. This beautiful capitol, like every capitol since
the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.
Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is
IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people
whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way.
Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are people
who want to do better, and so I say to all of you here, let us resolve
to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down
the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage, so that we
can feel the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make
our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent
experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays."
Let us give this capitol back to the people to whom it belongs.
To renew America we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home.
There is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is
domestic. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis,
the world arms race: they affect us all. Today as an old order passes, the new
world is more free, but less stable. Communism's collapse has called forth old
animosities, and new dangers. Clearly, America must continue to lead the world
we did so much to make. While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink
from the challenges nor fail to seize the opportunities of this new world.
Together with our friends and allies, we will work together to shape change,
lest it engulf us. When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and
conscience of the international community is defied, we will act; with peaceful
diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary. The brave Americans
serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else
they stand, are testament to our resolve, but our greatest strength is the
power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across the world,
we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands,
are with those on every continent, who are building democracy and freedom.
Their cause is America's cause. The American people have summoned the change
we celebrate today. You have raised your voices in an unmistakable chorus,
you have cast your votes in historic numbers, you have changed the face of
congress, the presidency, and the political process itself. Yes, YOU, my
fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now WE must do the work the
season demands. To that work I now turn with ALL the authority of my office.
I ask the congress to join with me; but no president, no congress,
no government can undertake THIS mission alone.
My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.
I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service,
to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company
with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much
to be done. Enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young
in spirit, to give of themselves in service, too. In serving we recognize
a simple, but powerful, truth: we need each other, and we must care for
one another. Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate
ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution,
and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by
the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate,
might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation
can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity;
an idea infused with the conviction that America's journey long, heroic
journey must go forever upward.
And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st Century,
let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline,
and let us work until our work is done. The Scripture says: "And let us
not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
From this joyful mountaintop of celebration we hear a call to service in
the valley. We have heard the trumpets, we have changed the guard,
and now each in our own way, and with God's help, we must answer the call.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
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The following 1600 words comprise William Jefferson Clinton's
Inaugural Presidential Address given from noon to 12:15 P.M.,
January 20, 1993.
[Capitals represent emphasis, extra commas represent pauses,
long pauses are represented by ellipses (. . .).]
Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address
My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.
This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak
and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in
the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage
to reinvent America. When our founders boldly declared America's independence
to the world, and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America,
to endure, would have to change. Not change for change sake, but change
to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
Each generation of American's must define what it means to be an American.
On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his
half-century of service to America. . .and I thank the millions of men
and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression,
fascism and communism.
Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new
responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but threatened
still by ancient hatreds and new plagues. Raised in unrivalled prosperity,
we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by
business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions
among OUR OWN people.
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news
travelled slowly across the land by horseback, and across the ocean by boat.
Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to
billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global.
Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, and ambition for
a better life is now universal.
We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people
all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking
our world, and the URGENT question of our time is whether we can make change
our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives
of MILLIONS of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when
most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all,
when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt
our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law abiding
citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot
even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made
change our friend.
We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps,
but we have not done so. Instead we have drifted, and that
drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy,
and shaken our confidence. Though our challenges are fearsome,
so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing,
hopeful people, and we must bring to our task today the vision
and will of those who came before us. From our Revolution to the
Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement,
our people have always mustered the determination to construct from
these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed
that to preserve the very foundations of our nation we would need
dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans,
this is OUR time. Let us embrace it.
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of
our OWN renewal. There is nothing WRONG with America that cannot be cured
by what is RIGHT with America.
And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift,
and a new season of American renewal has begun.
To renew America we must be bold. We must do what no generation
has had to do before. We must invest more in our own people,
in their jobs, and in their future, and at the same time cut
our massive debt. . .and we must do so in a world in which
we must compete for every opportunity. It will not be easy.
It will require sacrifice, but it can be done, and done fairly.
Not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for OUR own sake.
We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its
children. Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.
We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes
wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world
to come, the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have
borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibilities.
We must do what America does best, offer more opportunity TO all
and demand more responsibility FROM all.
It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing:
from our government, or from each other. Let us all take more
responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our
communities and our country. To renew America we must revitalize
our democracy. This beautiful capitol, like every capitol since
the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.
Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is
IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people
whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way.
Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are people
who want to do better, and so I say to all of you here, let us resolve
to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down
the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage, so that we
can feel the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make
our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent
experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays."
Let us give this capitol back to the people to whom it belongs.
To renew America we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home.
There is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is
domestic. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis,
the world arms race: they affect us all. Today as an old order passes, the new
world is more free, but less stable. Communism's collapse has called forth old
animosities, and new dangers. Clearly, America must continue to lead the world
we did so much to make. While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink
from the challenges nor fail to seize the opportunities of this new world.
Together with our friends and allies, we will work together to shape change,
lest it engulf us. When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and
conscience of the international community is defied, we will act; with peaceful
diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary. The brave Americans
serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else
they stand, are testament to our resolve, but our greatest strength is the
power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across the world,
we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands,
are with those on every continent, who are building democracy and freedom.
Their cause is America's cause. The American people have summoned the change
we celebrate today. You have raised your voices in an unmistakable chorus,
you have cast your votes in historic numbers, you have changed the face of
congress, the presidency, and the political process itself. Yes, YOU, my
fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now WE must do the work the
season demands. To that work I now turn with ALL the authority of my office.
I ask the congress to join with me; but no president, no congress,
no government can undertake THIS mission alone.
My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.
I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service,
to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company
with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much
to be done. Enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young
in spirit, to give of themselves in service, too. In serving we recognize
a simple, but powerful, truth: we need each other, and we must care for
one another. Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate
ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution,
and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by
the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate,
might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation
can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity;
an idea infused with the conviction that America's journey long, heroic
journey must go forever upward.
And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st Century,
let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline,
and let us work until our work is done. The Scripture says: "And let us
not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
From this joyful mountaintop of celebration we hear a call to service in
the valley. We have heard the trumpets, we have changed the guard,
and now each in our own way, and with God's help, we must answer the call.
Thank you, and God bless you all.
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=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/agrippa.txt [ 10345] Text of Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) by William Gibson (1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/approach.txt [ 484114] Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers and Keyboard Criminals by Paul Mungo and Bryan Glough (1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/bigd10.txt [ 434317] Project Gutenberg: The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet, by the EFF
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/boh-10f8.txt [ 108080] The Hacker Bible, by the Chaos Computer Club
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/clinton1.txt [ 19281] Project Gutenberg: President Clinton's Inaugural Address
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/clinton2.txt [ 19897] Project Gutenberg: President Clinton's Inaugural Address
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/clinton3.txt [ 19505] Project Gutenberg: President Clinton's Inaugural Address
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/ejournal21.txt [ 244055] Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters Edition 2.1 by Michael Strangelove (July, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/eyeargon.txt [ 70847] ASCII Transcription of the Eye of Argon, reputedly the Worst Science Fiction Novel Ever Written
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/hack11a.txt [ 692945] The Project Gutenberg Extext of Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/hckr_hnd.txt [ 330758] The Hacker's Handbook, by Hugo Cornwall (1985)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/hhandbook.txt [ 331154] The Hacker's Handbook by Hugo Cornwall (1985)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/hhbk [ 331264] The Hacker's Handbook, by Hugo Cornwall (1985)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/hhgi10.txt [ 50223] The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet by Ed Krol (August 25, 1987)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/jargn10.txt [ 1128344] The Jargon File (Version 2.9.10) by Eric Raymond (July 1, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/last_book_project [ 14026] An invitation to take part in the Last Book Project with Media Kaos and Joseph Matheny (1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/locet10.txt [ 437907] Workshop on Electronic Texts Proceedings, by James Day (June 10, 1992)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/net-letter-guide [ 6308] Net-Letter Guide: A Newshound's Guide to Newsy Perodicals Available through the Internet, by John M. Hihhins (May 5, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/online11.txt [ 634252] Project Gutenberg: The Online World, by Odd De Presno
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/oxford [ 9959] The Oxford Text Archive Is Proud to Make an Announcement (October 29, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/price10.txt [ 789323] The Price Index of Computers: The Rate of Change of the Rate of Change, by Michael S. Hart (November, 1993)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/radio10a.txt [ 190337] The Dawn of Amatur Radio in the UK and Greece, a Personal View, by Normal F. Joly (1990)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/tc_read.me [ 13867] Terminal Comprimise by Winn Schwartau: "The World's First Novel-On-The-Net Shareware"
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/termc10.txt [ 1359114] Project Gutenberg: Terminal Compromise, by Winn Schwartau
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/termcomp.1 [ 250213] Chapters 1-5 of Terminal Comprimise by Winn Schwartau
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/termcomp.2 [ 337257] Chapters 6-14 of Terminal Comprimise by Winn Schwartau
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/termcomp.3 [ 363615] Chapters 16-21 of Terminal Comprimise by Winn Schwartau
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/termcomp.4 [ 388515] Chapters 22-Conclusion of Terminal Comprimise by Winn Schwartau
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/uscensus.txt [ 350748] The 1990 United States Census
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/viols10.txt [ 132204] Violists, by Richard McGowan (January 22, 1994)
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/wmgib10.txt [ 24298] Project Gutenberg: William Gibson Interview
=> gemini://informis.land/textfiles/etext/MODERN/zen10.txt [ 176012] Project Gutenberg: Zen and the Art of the Internet
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You are invited to partake in the creation of _The_Last_Book_
How do you participate? Merely by changing, writing, mangling,
morphing,transmorging,violating,the text below and sending
your efforts back to mediak@well.sf.ca.us.
The entire collection of changes and detours will be printed in
a beautiful "Artlaw" edition by MediaKaos.
All contributors will recieve a copy of the collection, as well
as recieving credit for their work. If you wish to contribute,
but don't want your email address included, please leave a note
to that effect, and directions as to how you wish to be credited.
This will be an edition sold "at cost" ( just to cover the nice
offset work ) and therefore we cannot pay anyone for their
contributions.
Pass this along to anyone you think may be interested in playing
our infinte game, email or print out to those who have no email
access.
Non-email contributions may be snail mailed to:
MediaKaos
409 Laguna #4D
San Francisco, CA 94102
As an example we have included the first contribution by Rob
Breszny.
Mutatis Mutundis!
Joseph Matheny
Cultural Provocateur
MediaKaos
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The Last Book : A MediaKaos Work in Progress
Anti-Copyright/ Plagarite 1993, Mediakaos
Chapter 1
An Invitation to Dance
This is an open invitation to partake in an infinite game.Over
the course of an undefined span of time an experiment will be
conduted by the authors of this book in an immersion
experience, an interaction between book and recipient.The true
authors of this book are the ones who partake of the moments
of it's experience, myself as I write and assemble the
words,images,sounds, and artifacts involved, and you as you
rewrite and discover thier potential to create an enviroment.
*************************************************
In the past the spoken word was viewed as holding some kind of
power or resonance while the written word was viewed as dead
and only imbued with potential life (ie. when recited or
intoned). it is in this spirit that this work was created.The
recipient of this tome is encouraged to partake in it's
conception and to nurse it along so that it may become
a living intelligence system. What will be born will vary with
the input of the user.Remember the old programing adage "
G.I.G.O. or garbage in garbage out" to which we add "B.I.B.O. or
beauty in beauty out" or "random in random out" or "intent in
new form out", ad infinitum.
Many forms will be born, from shuddering monsters to a
shining philosophers stone. Let a thousand flowers bloom!
**************************************************
Since there is no goal to this experiment other than the goal of
perpetually discovering new forms and new ways of perceiving,
it is an infinite game. An infinite game is played for the
purpose of continuing play, as opposed to a finite game which is
played for the purpose of winning or defining winners. It is an
act of free will. No one can "play" who is forced to play.
**************************************************
This work endeavours to escape the constancy of numerical
boundaries.Whenever persons may walk on or off the field of
play as they wish,there is such a flux of participants that none
can emerge as a clear victor.
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The traditional format of the book is one that dictates a
posture of passive reception on the part of the reader.The
author is delivering a monologue ( much like the one delivered
here) and the reader is the reciever or passive audience.Even
bold experiments like the cut -up can become an exercise in
monologue. To be effective or to have real relevance to the
reader cut-up must be an act on the part of the reader.To
discover new ways of percieving is the responsibility
of the individual.To make it truly experiential cut it up
yourself! This is not to say that the cut-up discoveries of
others cannot be a valuable source of information, but why stop
there. This act could move the reader into a position of
becoming a co-author or co-conspirator in the
process of creation. To conspire literally means "to breath
together".
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The preceding statement was written by a cat.
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The day on which you recieve this book is the begining of a new
cycle,it represents a new calender.
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The etymology of the word cycle, from the Greek, indicates
circularity.
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The week is a non celestial time cycle, indicative of another
moon with a shorter orbit.
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The 7 day week is still most evidently felt within the domain
of work.As opposed to hunter gatherer societies, modern
workers are in a pattern of temporal regularity that is
essentially artificial, not dictated by daily variations between
the quality of vision between night and day, seasonal
variations in tempature or amount of rain, and so on. The
artificiality of the modern "work /rest" beat results from the
fact that it is dissociated from most natural rythyms, being
largely derived from a mechanical periodicity.
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The dominant motif for the weekday is production(work), while
that of the weekend is consumption( shopping and
entertainment).
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Schedules and calenders are intimately linked to group
formation,and a temporal pattern that is unique to a group
often contributes to the establishment of social boundaries
that distinguish as well as actually seperate group members
from "outsiders".
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A deck of cards has 52 cards.
There are 52 weeks in a year.
The numerical value of the 52 cards add up to 364, plus the
joker or floating card to make 365.
Each year has 364 definite days with a floating day to make
365.
There are 4 suits in a deck of cards.
There are 4 seasons in a year.
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Entropic Apocalyptic
* *
Physical Metaphysical
* *
Scientific law Random principle
* *
Slow but irreversible decay Destruction and regeneration
* *
No hope Hope
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At the end of every apocalypse is the apperance of a new heaven
and earth.Before something new can be built the ground must
first be cleared of the old monolithic structures that cover the
soil.
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Is humanities purpose merely to make fractals into straight
lines?
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This is your card.
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This space intentionally left blank.
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This space mistakenly left blank.
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Saturday-Day of Saturn
Sunday-Day of Sun
Monday-Day of Moon
Tuesday-Day of Mars
Wedensday-Day of Mercury
Thursday-Day of Jupiter
Friday-Day of Venus
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S.H.I.V.A. (Super Heuristic Invitro Virual Anomoly)
The code to reproduce this language virus is as follows:
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1
Message 1:
From 73077.2524@CompuServe.COM Mon Nov 8 10:37:20 1993
Date: 08 Nov 93 13:31:56 EST
From: "Rob Brezsny, Asshole of the Year"
<73077.2524@CompuServe.COM>
To: <mediak@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: Infinite Book Replacement
This replaces the previous transmission, which cut
off some of the co-authors' words in mid-breath. I
guess the translation from the Televisionary Netweb
to the Internet is not yet quite efficient.
Excerpts from "The Last VideoBook" Anti-Copyright/Plagarite
1993, Mediakaos and Copywrong 1993, Psychoactivist
Chapter 2
An Invitation to Dance
This is an open invitation to be born too many times.
Over the course of an undefined span of time, an
experiment will be conducted by the authors of this
book to create a story of the nuclear furnace that
grows like a sweet choromosome in the tender loop
of god talking to herself. This is in an immersion
experience, an interaction between book and
recipient. The true authors of this book are the ones
who partake of the moments of its experience,
myself as I write and assemble the words, images,
sounds, and artifacts involved, and you as you prove
that you are living within the pleasure dome where
the gods' trickiest games unfold, games whose rules
demand you experience the pleasure of trying to trick
the gods before they trick you.
******************************************
There is no goal to this experiment other than to tell
ourselves glad stories of the jewel that festers north
of our medulla oblongatas, a jewel that tempts our
hairy unguided trembling pouting souls to find
Asclepius of Epidaurus in Dreamtime or Cyberspace,
whichever comes first. The story has no commercial
appeal, for it has no basis in "fact," no use as a
device for seduction, no value as a flattering mirror
of samsara, and no resonance with the language of
the dominator class. The story is an infinite game; it
is a tidal wave of fantasy that has arrived here in
this moment (and every moment) from four billion
suns simultaneously. The game is played solely for
the purpose of continuing play, as opposed to a finite
game which is played for the purpose of winning or
defining winners. It is an act of free will. No one can
"play" who is forced to play.
******************************************
The traditional format of the book is one that
dictates female body mutilation, practiced ritually
by many different cultures. The author, or "terrorist,"
is attempting to conjure an experience analogous to
fucking his date after a trip to the rifle range for
target practice. Even bold experiments like the
anorexic beauty contest can become little more than
an exercise in finding the proper proportions of milk,
blood, sperm, gasoline and oil. To be effective or to
have real relevance to the reader the author must
refute the literary critic's claim that "most
terrorists are very normal." Furthermore, to discover
why the great white eagle has blood spattered on its
head in the final stages of the Great Work is the
responsibility not of the eagle but of the "terrorist."
To make it truly experiential, in other words, become
the eagle! This is not to say that when you're "stuffed
with solidified light" you can't "sink to the bottom of
the sea" in order to activate the "qaumanEq," or
shamanlight of the brain. But why stop there? This
act could move the reader, as well as the author, into
a position of participating in the Iroquois dream-
guessing rite, whose aim is to guess the dreamer's
"ondinnonk," or the secret wish of the soul revealed
in the dream. To dream together literally means
"overcome the putrid patriarchal stench that William
Gibson's aura has left in the Dreamtime."
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Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara labored for 100,000
kalpas (one kalpa equals a thousand lifetimes) to be a
good enough guy to cancel out the bad karma of
everyone else in the world. It worked--for a while.
All sentient beings fled joyfully from samsara like a
day of free ice cream on the playground. But just
before he was about to slip into the final
strangulation, the absolute blissful extinction of
nirvana, he peeked back and saw that everybody he
had just saved was backsliding--bad. He cried two
tears. One was White Tara and one Green Tara.
The preceding statement was spit by a seahorse.
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The day on which you receive this book is the
begining of Zen Pride Week, a calendar in which there
are 20 months of 13 days each plus a five-day
Saturnalia during which all may have sex with all
without karmic consequences.
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The etymology of the word enceinte, from the French,
indicates "ready to pop."
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The 7 day week is still most evidently felt within the
domain of work.
As opposed to hunter gatherer societies, modern
workers are in a pattern of temporal regularity that
is essentially artificial, not dictated by daily tantric
asymptotal self-cannibalizations (one's own
fingernails, hair, snot, menstrual blood, etc.)
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Funtropic Mediapocalyptic
* *
Oxymoronic Carbomoronic
* *
Morphogenetic field "Cult of Science" necessity
* *
Premature nihilism Premature orgasm
* *
No name Hope-ocalypse
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At the end of every Malkuth is the appearance of a
new Kether. Before Tiphareth can be built the Fool
must first jump off the cliff.
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This is your baseball-Tarot card.
******************************************
S.H.I.V.A. (Super Heuristic Invitro Virtual Anomoly)
The code to reproduce this language virus is as
follows:
I.H.V.H. (Interactive Homemade Viral Hologram)
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NET-LETTER GUIDE
A newshound's guide to newsy periodicals available through the
Internet. Compiled by John M. Higgins (higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org)
Updated May 5, 1994
Introduction: My favorite things on the Internet are informative, high-
quality newsletters. The quality of info contributed to what Mitch Kapor
describes as the Net's "gift economy" is amazing. Despite some excellent
e-pub guides, tracking down good NEWSY letters can be frustrating, partly
because they get lost in the flood of zines and very technical pubs.
So this list aims to point people to the news-oriented net-letters with
somewhat broader appeal. It's not intended to be as comprehensive as
other guides, but helpful nevertheless. Very technical and fanzine
newsletters are not included because they are well covered by other guides.
GIMME FEEDBACK!! This is just an initial stab, just a dozen or so I've
seen and like (including one I edit!). Some are well-known, others are
not. Send me your favorite net-letters, particularly if you're the
editor. Include any subscription information plus a copy.
HOW TO GET THE NET-LETTER GUIDE: For now, it will be available by
e-mailing higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org, plus Usenet groups alt.zines,
alt.etext, misc.writing, rec.mag, alt.internet.services, alt.answers,
misc.answers, rec.answers, news.answers. If folks like it, other
arrangements will be made.
(Far more exhaustive lists of electronic publications include John
Labovitz's e-zine-list {FTP to ftp.netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/e-zine-list
or http //www.ora.com:8080/johnl/e-zine-list/} or the giant e-pub archive,
by FTP and Gopher {etext.archive.umich.edu})
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EDUPAGE: Tip sheet on information technology and media issued three
times weekly. Quickie summaries primarily of newspaper articles,
primarily from the majors.
How to get it. E-Mail (listproc@educom.edu, SUB EDUPAGE YOUR NAME).
FITZ'S SHOPTALK: Daily dispatches on the TV business, both networks and
local stations by media headhunter Don FitzPatrick. Primarily summaries
of wire-service and major newspapers, but also includes some full-text
reprints.
How to get it: E-mail (shoptalk-request@gremlin.clark.net, SUBSCRIBE
YOUR@ADDRESS).
LATE SHOW NEWS: A guy who obviously stays up way too late puts out a
weekly newsletter on the late-night talk show wars. It's biased toward
Letterman but contains surprisingly good industry dirt on Leno, Conan,
etc. (even for those of us writing about television for a living).
How to get it: E-mail (letterman@mcs.net), Usenet (alt.fan.letterman
and rec.arts.tv), FTP (ftp.mcs.net:/mcsnet.users/barnhart/letterman).
HICNet MEDICAL NEWS DIGEST: Something painless from a dentist. Broad
bi-weekly newsletter on medicine by Health Info-Com Network, put together
by dentist David Dodell. One week featured sleep apnea and snoring plus
hemlock! Also carries excerpts of the Center for Disease Control's AIDS
Daily Summary. The downside is conference announcements (OK, on things
like techniques for identifying corpses, but they're still conference
announcements!).
How To Get It: E-Mail (mednews@asuvm.inre.asu.edu); FTP:(vm1.nodak.edu)
NETWORKS & COMMUNITY: The emphasis here is on "community" in
Internet-land. Less techie than you might expect.
How To Get It: E-Mail (rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu; SUBSCRIBE YOUR NAME)
Gopher: (gopher.well.sf.ca.us or gopher.nlc-bnc.ca)
CABLE REGULATION DIGEST: Weekly summary of news on cable regulation
published by Multichannel News.
How to get it: E-Mail, distributed to the TELECOMREG mailing list.
(listserver@relay.adp.wisc.edu, SUBSCRIBE TELECOMREG);
FTP (ftp.vortex.com:pub/tv-film-video/cable-reg); Gopher (gopher.vortex.com)
SCIENCE BEAT: A tip sheet for science journalists from the National
Institute for Standards and Technologies. Maybe not too newsy, but short,
sweet and interesting.
How to get it: GOPHER (gopher-server.nist.gov).
HOTT: HOTT -- Hot Off The Tree -- has re-emerged as a giant pub
culling the latest advances in computer, communications, and electronics
technologies from over trade magazines, newspapers and net resources.
Great stuff, but why they're gathering so much material for a huge
monthly rather than a smaller weekly or something is beyond me.
How to get it: E-mail (listserv@ucsd.edu,SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST)
PRIVACY Forum: Tidbits about threats to privacy from government snoops
to credit agencies.
How to get it: E-Mail(privacy-request@vortex.com); FTP (ftp.vortex.com);
Gopher (gopher.vortex.com).
ALAWON: An electronic newsletter distributed by the Washington Office of
the American Library Association that covers federal legislation,
regulations, policy, and grant opportunities of interest to libraries.
How to get it: E-mail: (listserv@uicvm {Bitnet} or
listserv@uicvm.uic.edu {Internet} SUBSCRIBE ALA-WOFirstName LastName).
CURRENT CITES: A monthly letter for library technology, composed of
pointers from magazine articles. A little on the dry side, partly because
of its format.
How to get it: E-mail (listserv@library.berkeley.edu; SUB CITES YOUR
NAME); FTP: (ftp.lib.berkeley.edu:/pub/Current.Cites)
COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST: The latest news on cyberspace issues.
CUD's coolest when screaming about the latest hacker or BBS raid, good
when picking apart government policy issues. But CUD will occasionally
reprint the ENTIRE AGENDA for some upcoming computer conference. (YAWN!!!)
How to get it: E-Mail (listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet or
listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, SUB CUDIGEST YOUR NAME); Usenet
(comp.society.cu-digest); FTP (etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/eff) plus
lots of other places.
EFFECTOR: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's membership newsletter,
great for telecom policy updates.
How to get it: E-mail: send request to brown@eff.org; FTP (ftp.eff.org);
Usenet: {preferred!~} (comp.org.eff); Gopher (gopher.eff.org)
RISKS Forum: Tidbits about the risks computers present in society. One
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How to get it: E-mail (risks-request@csl.sri.com); Usenet {preferred!}
(comp.risks); FTP (crvax.sri.com).
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From: archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Oxford Text Archive)
Newsgroups: alt.etext
Subject: Re: FTP Oxford Text Archives
Message-ID: <1993Oct29.144816.17690@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Oct 93 14:48:16 GMT
References: <citiznkCFK61p.A1p@netcom.com>
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620
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In article <citiznkCFK61p.A1p@netcom.com>, citiznk@netcom.com (Outta Control Data) writes:
> I've seen an e-mail address for Oxford Text Archives (OTA), but
> is there an OTA site accessible to telnet or FTP and, if so, what's
> needed to log on?
This might help!
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0107. Tuesday, 17 Aug 1993.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 10:43:15 +0100
From: Oxford Text Archive <archive@vax.ox.ac.uk>
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE...
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
* a new Short List of titles held at Oxford
* 40 titles now available in TEI format for anonymous FTP
* a new FTP service for licensed access via the Internet
It's been a long time since we posted any news of our activities to
this or other lists. It's not that we've been inactive -- quite the
opposite in fact.
* We have been converting texts to a standard TEI-compatible mark up
(with much appreciated help from Jeffrey Triggs at Bellcore, and
John Price-Wilkin at Virginia).
* We have been experimenting with ways of saving time and money by
using FTP, Gopher, WWW etc to deliver material rather than tapes and
disks
* We have been scouring the networks for new material of all kinds
* We have been trying to find some additional and reliable sources of
funding, but cannot report much progress. Any philanthropists out
there, please form an orderly queue.
***** NEW ACCESSIONS ******
Our latest catalogue lists 1336 titles, in 28 languages. We have
about 1.2 Gb of textual data, most of it freely available, some of it
restricted in one way or another. We want more. We're particularly
interested in scholarly minority-interest material which is not going
to turn up on CD-anything in the foreseeable future. We don't charge
fees to look after your material, and we keep track of what happens to
it. We do our best to make sure that whatever texts you deposit with us
are rendered as future-proof as we can make them but we don't change
the information you recorded. We're archivists, not evangelists, for
electronic text.
At the same time, now that some kind of standardization is at last
beginning to appear, we're eager to show that old wine can be put into
new bottles. So you'll find that quite a few texts are now available in
more than one form -- both the original, and a "TEI-compatible" form.
(When the original form is easily available elsewhere, and particularly
when the TEI form has more information in it, then we may well drop the
former from the catalogue. But don't worry: it's still in the
Archive....)
*********** NEW FTP SERVICES *************
Our ftp address is: ota.ox.ac.uk. You can log on as anonymous,
quoting your e-mail address as a password.
If you don't know how to use FTP, ask someone at your local computer
centre. If someone there runs a Gopher, or WWW server, get them to
point the little critter at the following useful files, which you
can also download from the above address:
ota/textarchive.list our current catalogue
ota/textarchive.info information file + order form
There are two classes of texts available from this FTP server
(a) texts which are in TEI format and which we can make freely
available (these all appear as category P texts in the shortlist)
(b) texts which are available only under our standard conditions of
use, (these all appear as category U or A in the shortlist)
[Just to confuse the issue, there are also texts which appear as
category P texts in the Shortlist, because they are freely available,
but which we have not yet checked or converted for TEI compatibility,
and which are therefore not available from our FTP server, though you
may well be able to get them from someone else's. We will distribute
them in the same way as (b) class texts if you insist.]
A CLASS TEXTS (Freely Available)
You can just download these without formality using standard FTP
commands. In some cases there are additional usage constraints,
specified in the TEI header. We also hope that you won't redistribute
these texts in a mutilated state or without acknowledgment of where you
got them from. We can't enforce any of these things, obviously. We
think that the Internet is successful because -- and as long as --
people trust each other.
To see what (a) class texts are available now, just take a look in the
directory ota. It's arranged, like the ShortList, by language, and
within that by Author. There are x texts in there today, and there will
be more. Each text has a conformant TEI header, and each text is a
legal TEI compatible document, using a special document type definition
(dtd), which you can also download from the same directory (look in
ota/TEI). Eventually, there'll be some more introductory stuff on what
SGML is, why the TEI is a Good Thing etc etc. Just now, we're working
flat out getting the texts in there.
Here's the list of what was there when I prepared this note:
Anonymous: Gammer Gurtons Needle
Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim; Nigger of the Narcissus
Charles Darwin: Origin of Species
Arthur Conan Doyle: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Casebook of Sherlock
Holmes; His last bow; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Sign of Four; Valley
of Fear; Hound of the Baskervilles; Return of Sherlock Holmes; A study
in Scarlet
Henry James: The Europeans; Roderick Hudson; The Watch
Jack London: Klondike Tales; The Seawolf; The Call of the Wild; Whitefang
Andrew Marvell: English Poems (1688)
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Lucy M. Montgomery: Ann of Avonlea
William Morris: News from Nowhere
Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Antony Trollope: Lady Anna; Ayalas Angel; The Eustace Diamonds; Can you
forgive her; Phineas Finn; Phineas Redux; Rachel Ray; Dr Wortle's School;
Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at the court of King Arthur
H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds; The Time Machine
(B) CLASS TEXTS : (Restricted access)
The majority of texts in the Archive are and always have been held in
trust for a Depositor. Rather than keep track of a zillion different
contracts with each Depositor, we worked out a single contract which is
the basis of our standard user declaration form. It has served to keep
us out of the law courts for the last twenty five years, so it can't
have been all bad.
Because it's a contract, we have to have a signed paper copy of the
declaration in our hands before we can issue copies of the texts. Once
we have that declaration, we can send you copies of restricted texts, on
diskette, cartridge or magnetic tape, or even over the network.
Up till this week, the only way you could get copies of (b) class texts
over the network was to tell us an account and password on your
machine. We would then bash the files across to you, for free. This was
a rather unsatisfactory procedure in several ways: we think we now have
a better one. It's still free and it works like this:
- you send us a signed order form, as usual
- on the order form you specify the password of your choice
- we place copies of the files you ordered in a special directory under ota,
access to which requires you to quote both a personal identifier (which we
will give you) and the password (which you have told us)
- we send you e-mail giving details of how to access the directory
- you download copies of the files you ordered, using conventional ftp
commands
- after a fixed period of time (usually about a week) your personal
identifier is removed and the file copies deleted
**********THE DOWN SIDE************
We save until the very end of this note the inevitable piece of bad
news. After 25 years, we've been told very firmly that we have to
increase our prices to something a bit nearer a realistic level. Not
only that, but within the European Community we must charge VAT at 17.5%
on every order. We've taken this opportunity to rethink the way in which
we charge slightly.
We charge only for material costs, postage and packing on orders for
texts sent on magnetic media of various kinds. We have abolished the
"per text" fee, and we are no longer insisting on payment in advance.
We are still charging over the odds for diskettes because they take us a
disproportionate amount of effort to produce.
The cost is worked out as follows:
Magnetic tape: #50 ($80) each
DC350 tape cartridge #30 ($50) each
Diskette #20 ($35) each
Invoicing charge #10 ($20) payable if order is not prepaid
Postage surcharge #10 ($20) for orders outside EC
Add VAT at 17.5% for orders within EC
We will continue to give an estimate for the cost of any order free of
charge. And, of course, if you use our new FTP service, then you don't
need to pay us a penny.
We look forward to hearing from you in the new academic year!
Lou Burnard and Alan Morrison
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Oxford Text Archive email: archive@ox.ac.uk
Oxford University Computing Services tel: +44 865 273238
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK fax: +44 865 273275
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READING "TERMINAL COMPROMISE"
"Terminal Compromise" will come to you in one of two ways:
1) Original Distribution Format From Inter.Pact Press contains
only two -2- files.
TC_READ.ME 13,927 Bytes
That is this file you are now reading and gives an overview of
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TERMCOMP.ZIP 605,821 Bytes
This is the total content of "Terminal Compromise". Run PKUNZIP
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readable ASCII form. There will then be four files in addition
to the TC_READ.ME file.
TERMCOMP.1 250,213 Bytes
contains the Introduction and Chapters 1 through 5.
TERMCOMP.2 337,257 Bytes
contains Chapters 6 through 14.
TERMCOMP.3 363,615 Bytes
contains Chapters 15 through 21.
TERMCOMP.4 388,515 Bytes
contains Chapters 22 through 30 and the Epilogue.
Enjoy "Terminal Compromise!" and pass it on to whomever you
think would enjoy it, too!
Thank You!
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INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM GIBSON
by Giuseppe Salza
****This interview will be included in the book "Net-Surfers"
(tentative tile) by Giuseppe Salza, to be published by
"Theoria Edizioni" in Italy in Spring 1995****
CANNES. William Gibson was in Cannes in May 1994 to promote
the filming of "Johnny Mnemonic", a $26 million science fiction
movie based on his short story, and starring megastar Keanu
Reeves as the main character. Directed by the concept artist (and
Gibson's pal) Robert Longo - with a few music video and TV credits,
but for the first time in charge of a feature, the film also stars Ice-T,
Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi Kitano (of the cult "Sonatine"), Udo Kier,
Henry Rollins and Dina Meyer. William Gibson also wrote the
screenplay of his original story, which was published in the anthology
"Burning Chrome". "Johnny Mnemonic" goes into wide release
in current 1995.
In this interview, William Gibson talks at length about "Johnny
Mnemonic", movies, SF, net culture and issues.
What are your initial impressions on how "Johnny Mnemonic" is
turning out ?
I have just seen the pre-assembled 10-minute show reel. I think it is
fantastic! It felt very good seeing the universe of "Johnny Mnemonic"
taking a life on its own. If it had been different, I wouldn't probably
be here. But it can be safe to say that "Johnny Mnemonic" has been
the optimal screen experience so far.
Robert (Longo, the film director) and I kind of had a mutual
experience with it. We first tried to make a screen adaptation of
"Johnny Mnemonic" back in 1989, so we started pitching it around
film companies, asking for money. Didn't work out. We realized
afterwards that our major mistake was asking too little money.
Our aim back then was to make a little art movie, we figured that
we would need less than 2 million dollars. Jean-Luc Godard's
"Alphaville" was our main inspiration back then. We should have
asked more money.
We went through several script drafts and stages. It became very
painful pursuing the project. If it were just for me, I would have
given up long ago. It was really Robert's faith and persistence
in getting this film done that made it possible.
Have you written any film scripts before, besides this and the ill-
fated drafts for "Alien3"?
Yeah, I have done a couple of screen adaptations that never got
made. One was "Burning Chrome" (ED.Kathryn Bigelow was
involved in it for a while) and the other was "Neuro-Hotel".
What happened ?
I don't really feel like talking about them. Let's just say that
these projects have been... developed to death. It was getting
more and more frustrating, and I didn't like that.
Have you ever been involved in any other movie or TV project
before that ?
I was gonna write a story for the "Max Headroom" series, but the
network pulled the plug. My friend John Shirley did a couple of
scripts for them. He's the one who convinced me I should have
written one, too.
The only thing which was left of your script for "Alien3" was the
prisoners with the bar code tattooed on the back of their necks.
What do you think in retrospect of this misadventure ?
My script for "Alien3" was kind of Tarkovskian. Vincent Ward
(ED.the director of "The Navigator") came late to the project
(ED.after a number of other directors had been unsuccessfully
approached), but I think he got the true meaning of my story.
It would have been fun if he stayed on. (ED.he eventually quit.
"Alien3" was finally directed by David Fincher)
You seem very detached from your previous experiences in movies.
"Johnny Mnemonic", on the other hand, seems very personal to you.
Why is that ?
I wrote the original story in 1980. I think it was perhaps the second
piece of fiction I ever wrote in my life. It held up very good after all
these years. "Johnny" was a start for many creative processes:
it was in fact the root source of "Neuromancer" and "Count Zero".
It is only fair that the first script of mine that goes into production
should come from that, from my early career.
The world of "Johnny Mnemonic" takes for granted the Berlusconi
completion process, I mean the media baron becoming one of the
Country's leaders. I think the distinction between politicians and
media is gonna disappear. It already has, in effect. It is very sad.
It's like saying that the theories you imagined in your science fiction
stories are becoming real...
Yeah, but people shouldn't look at science fiction like they look at
"real" fiction. They shouldn't expect that this is what the future
is gonna look like. We (ED. science fiction writers) are sort of
charlatans: we come up with a few ideas and we make a living out of that.
When I wrote "Neuromancer", I would have never imagined AIDS
and the collapse of the USSR. We never get the future right.
I always thought that USSR was this big winter bear that would
always exist. And look at what happened. In 1993 I wrote an
afterword for the Hungarian version of "Neuromancer". I wrote that
nothing lives forever, and that it's time that the winds of democracy
blow over the East. But now, after the arrival of people like
Zhirinowsky, I have second thoughts again and I fear for them.
Now you also write "geo-anthropological" reports...
That's right. I did a portrait of Singapore for "Wired Magazine".
That place gave me the creeps.
You are considered the true father of cyberpunk. What do you think
of how this word has spread in the world and has gained new meanings ?
It depends whether you believe in such a thing. "Cyberpunk" has
become a historical word, one of these words which you use to
describe a definite period of time. The risk is that it could suddenly
become outdated, passe. Now it is a very fashionable thing to say:
wearing cyberpunk outfit or behaving cyberpunk has become hip:
you see it on MTV. I was never comfortable with this interpretation.
Billy Idol (ED. he released in 1993 the album "Cyberpunk") has
turned it into something very silly.
Finally, I think that cyberpunk is one of these journalistic terms,
that media like to rely on. I am aware that most young writers
are delighted being considered cyberpunk authors. But I'm older.
I remember well the Sixties. I know that once you have a "label"
attached onto you, it is over.
Let's go back to "Johnny Mnemonic". Which direction have you
given the screenplay ?
"Johnny" is about the politics of Information. It's an action film
of course, but it doesn't forego for flashy and graphic FX: there's too
much of that already on MTV. Besides, Billy Idol burned that look.
We preferred opting for an anti-realistic look: we want to plunge
the audience into a very strange but consistent universe. In short,
we have decided to tell a story. That's what science fiction
literature has often managed to achieve, unlike most films.
Which science fiction movies you like most ?
I like "Blade Runner", Andrej Tarkowski's "Stalker", Chris Marker's
"La jetee", and also the British pilot for the "Max Headroom"
series. (ED. it was directed by Rocky Morton & Annabel Jenkel)
"Johnny Mnemonic" has a superstar, Keanu Reeves. What do you
think of his portrayal of your character ?
Keanu is fantastic! I have this problem: I have never been able to
describe the character of Johnny, until he came aboard. One day in
the early stages of developement, we were discussing the character,
and I wasn't making a good job of doing that. But he really
got Johnny from day one. It helped me better understand this
person that I had imagined, so I was able to make small
adjustments to the story. I have always had a good attitude
towards actors, and Keanu helped me reinforce that idea.
Once "Johnny" got its second chance, Robert (Longo) and I have
talked to each others on the phone at least once every day.
Subsequently, I was often on the sets during the filming, doing
rewrites. The sets of this picture were awesome! Everything was
hung 50 feet up in the air. They were quite dangerous: you really
had to watch where to put your feet. But I was able to not black out.
You and Bruce Sterling are the forefathers of the new science fiction.
Isn't it ironical that he is very fascinated by hackers and the new edge,
whereas you're not a technical person ?
Bruce practically lives on the Internet. I don't even have a modem
or e-mail. My computer is outdated by any standards of criteria.
I never was a technical guy and never will be. I'm a writer,
and poetry and pop culture are the two things which fascinate me most.
I'm not deeply excited by hi-tech. The Edge of the U2 was over here
the other day and he was showing me Net stuff. He showed how he
could telnet to his Los Angeles computer and he was very excited.
I'll never be like that. However, I feel obliged to be ambivalent
towards technology. I can't be a "techie", but I can't hate it, either.
You have written "Virtual Light". So, what do you think of Virtual
Reality ?
If we take what I consider the "Sunday paper supplement" of VR,
I mean Goggles & Gloves, I think that it has become very obvious,
very cliche. I think that real VR is gonna come out from the new
generation of visual effects in movies. I met Jim Cameron when he
was editing "Terminator 2": he showed me the clips of the T-1000
emerging from fire in the L.A. canal. He said they were gonna use
the actor for the whole shot, but it was easier for them to do it in
digital. This is the future. One day there will be entire virtual
replicas of real actors.
Incidentally, the book I'm writing now is about virtual celebrities.
It's the story of a guy who becomes obsessed with the virtual replica of
a star, and falls in love with her.
You're not fascinated by technology, and yet you come up with ideas
on the edge...
When I write my books, my favorite part is always "art direction",
not the plot. I admit I like giving people a visual impression
of the world I'm creating. Then, I have to remind myself that
I have to tell a story, foremost.
Another issue you focus on are Information Superhighways.
What actions have you taken ?
Bruce Sterling and I went to the National Academy in Washington to
address the Al Gore people. We told them that this is the last
chance to give the poorest schools equal chances than the richest.
In a few years it will be too late and we won't be able to fill up the gap.
To me, Information Highways are best described by the most
interesting image I've seen on TV during the Los Angeles riot.
A Radio Shack shop (ED. a chain of shops selling consumer
electronics gear) was being looted. Next to that there was an Apple
shop, and it was untouched. People wanted to steal portable TVs
and CD players, not computers. I think this clearly indicated the
gaps of culture, or simply the gaps of chances, in our society.
Besides, the Information Highway issue gives the public a false
perception. They don't wanna offer you exhaustive accesses to
information; they wanna offer you a new shopping mall.
What do you think of the Clipper issue ?
The NSA wants to legislate that every computer manifactured in the
U.S. will have a chip built inside that will allow the Government
to decrypt the information. The worst thing is that people are not
informed of what is at stake here. Who would buy a computer with a
spy inside? The Clipper chip is an admission of incompetence.
They say they wanna be able to decrypt the information that would
jeopardize National Security. But to can prevent the Medellin cartel
to buy - say - into a Swiss corporation which comes up with a new
encryption system which totally cuts out the Clipper ?
Encryption programs are stronger and stronger. There is a new one
called Stego, which is free on Internet. It takes written material and
hides it in visual elements. I send a digitized e-postcard from
Cannes and there is half a novel hidden in its data. I've seen it work.
I haven't understood the half of it yet.
Man, the Clipper chip is fucked anyway. Most of the new edge guys
are into computers, and they're coming up with new gear nobody
had the slightest clue about five years ago. I saw recently a
prototype which looked like a beeper, but it was a virtual telephone.
Unfortunately, we have to deal with more paper than before. We are
submerged by tons of paper!
Wait a second. A few minutes you said you're not into hi-tech, and
now you're raving about it...
I'm not a techie. I don't know how these things work. But I like
what they do, and the new human processes that they generate.
What is in your opinion the most important technological
breakthrough of our society in recent years ?
My favorite piece of technology is the Walkman. It forever changed
the way we perceive music. The Walkman has given us the opportunity
to listen to whatever kind of music we wanted wherever we wanted.
The Fax machine is also an amazing thing. We live in a
very different world because of that: instantaneous written
communication everywhere. It is also a very political technology,
as the Tien An Men Square events told us.
What about e-mail ?
E-mail is very glamorous. Way too glamorous.
Copyright Giuseppe Salza, 1994.
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