T.LOOKING GLASS
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FILENAME(S): T.LOOKING GLASS
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| LOADSTAR 23 S 1 | T.LOOKING GLASS | SEQ | Sailor, Ganheden | 33 | 2 | DOWNLOAD FILE |
| LOADSTAR 23 S 1 | T.LOOKING GLASS | SEQ | Curtcool, Frank | 33 | 2 | DOWNLOAD FILE |
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.. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: AN. OBSERVER'S NOTEBOOK. BY. JON BARNES.."THE SILICON MUSE"..LET US NOW PRAISE INFAMOUS MEN.. ..... POOR JOSEPH. HE REALLY MEANT WEL L...LIKE ANY GOOD DOCTOR, HE FELT..COMPE LLED TO END THE SUFFERING HE SAW...AND L IKE ANY DOCTOR LIVING IN FRANCE..DURING THE LAST PART OF THE 18TH..CENTURY, HE L OOKED TO TECHNOLOGY FOR..THE MOST HUMANE , AND ABOVE ALL, THE..MOST EFFICIENT CUR E.... HE SUCCEEDED IN FINDING A CURE... PERHAPS TOO WELL.... WITH A SELFLESSNES S THAT REMAINS A..TRIBUTE TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION,..JOSEPH IGNACE GUILLOTIN LO BBIED THE..FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT TH E..INVENTION THAT BEARS HIS NAME.... TH E FRENCH FELL HEAD-OVER-HEELS FOR..JOSEP H'S INVENTION-- THE FRENCH ALWAYS..HAVE HAD AN AFFINITY FOR TECHNOLOGY'S..CUTTIN G EDGE.... DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ,..HOWEVER, PUBLIC OPINION WAS SPLIT IN. .MORE WAYS THAN ONE.... FOR THE REVOLUT IONARIES, THE..GUILLOTINE CAME TO SYMBOL IZE THE..POLITICAL PURIFICATION OF FRANC E. FOR..THE ENEMIES OF THE REVOLUTION, THE..GUILLOTINE REPRESENTED THE BARBARIT Y..OF THE NEW REGIME.... AS FOR JOSEPH, WHO WAS ONLY TRYING..TO PUT AN END TO T HE TRULY CRUEL..METHODS OF EXECUTION USE D IN THOSE..DAYS, HIS NAME IS FOREVER TI ED TO ONE..OF THE GREATEST SYMBOLS OF TE RROR EVER..KNOWN....IMAGES PAST....... THE GUILLOTINE SHOWS HOW A SINGLE..MACHI NE CAN REPRESENT AN ENTIRE..CULTURAL MOV EMENT. AND NOT ONLY..THAT--A MACHINE CA N EMBODY BOTH THE..DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF AN AGE.... OF COURSE, MACHINES LIKE THE..GUILLOTINE NEED A LITTLE HELP ON T HEIR..WAY TO BECOMING SYMBOLS. AND WHO. .BETTER TO MANIPULATE OUR HOPES AND..FEA RS THAN WRITERS?... TAKE AN EXAMPLE CLO SER TO HOME...DURING THE AMERICAN INDUST RIAL..REVOLUTION, THE IRON HORSE THUNDER ED..THROUGH THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION AS TH E..CENTRAL IMAGE OF THE AGE.... THE LOC OMOTIVE STOOD FOR ALL OF THE..TECHNOLOGI CAL INNOVATIONS THAT WOULD..TRANSFORM A VIRGIN CONTINENT INTO..A MODERN NATION. AT THE SAME TIME,..ITS APPEARANCE HERAL DED THE END OF AN..AGRARIAN WAY OF LIFE, THE END OF..INNOCENCE.... THUS THE LOC OMOTIVE CONSISTENTLY..APPEARS AS A METAP HOR FOR SOCIETY'S..AMBIVALENT FEELINGS A BOUT THE..INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WORKS BY..HAWTHORNE AND THOREAU IN THE LAST.. CENTURY AND HEMINGWAY IN OUR OWN.... AT A CERTAIN POINT, AS IT PASSED..THROUGH THE BOOKS, POEMS, AND FOLK..TALES OF THE TIME, THE SYMBOL OF THE..LOCOMOTIVE BEC AME AS IMPORTANT AS THE..ACTUAL MACHINE THAT IT SYMBOLIZED.... SYMBOLS HAVE A L IFE AND A POWER..ALL THEIR OWN-- AN IMPO RTANT THING..TO RECOGNIZE WHEN WE SEE HO W WE HAVE..BEEN CONDITIONED TO VIEW CERT AIN..MACHINES IN OUR OWN LIVES....IMAGES PRESENT....... WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND OU R..FOREFATHERS'S AMBIVALENT FEELINGS..QU ITE WELL, FOR OUR DREAMS, TOO, ARE..HAUN TED BY A MACHINE.... IN OUR OWN ERA, TH E COMPUTER FILLS A..SYMBOLIC ROLE SIMILA R TO THAT OF THE..LOCOMOTIVE IN THE LAST CENTURY. LIKE..THE LOCOMOTIVE IN ITS D AY, THE..COMPUTER IS SEEN AS THE ARCHITE CT OF..THE MODERN WORLD-- THE HARBINGER OF..CHANGE IN ECONOMY AND LIFE STYLE.... AND LIKE THE IRON HORSE, THE..COMPUTER ALSO SYMBOLIZES THE DARKER..SIDE OF A N EW WORLD. IN THE PUBLIC..CONSCIOUSNESS, THE COMPUTER IS..INVIOLABLY LINKED TO T HE NIGHTMARISH..WORLD OF GEORGE ORWELL'S "1984"-- A..WORLD AND A WAY OF THINKING ADOPTED..BY HUNDREDS OF OTHER WRITERS.. .. ON A GUT LEVEL, A LEVEL THAT WE..DON 'T SCRUTINIZE MUCH, WE ACCEPT THAT..THE COMPUTER DEHUMANIZES US. AFTER..ALL, TH IS MESSAGE HAS BEEN REINFORCED..BY EVERY THING FROM THE COMIC BOOKS WE..READ AS C HILDREN TO THE MOVIES WE SEE..TODAY....T HE SILICON MUSE... BUT AS SOCIETY EVOLV ES, AS..YESTERDAY'S AGENTS OF REVOLUTION ..BECOME TODAY'S TRADITIONS, SYMBOLS..LI KE THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE COMPUTER..CHAN GE.... THE SYMBOL OF "COMPUTER" HAS..EF FECTIVLY SPLIT IN TWO-- "COMPUTER"..NOW REFERS TO USER-FRIENDLY PCS AS..WELL AS SOMETIMES INTIMIDATING..MAINFRAMES.... TO BE SURE, LARGER COMPUTERS RETAIN..THE "1984" AURA-- EVEN FOR THOSE OF US..WHO ARE QUITE COMFORTABLE WITH OUR..APPLES AND COMMODORES.... AFTER ALL, WHO KNOWS WHAT..INFORMATION A FACELESS BUREAUCRAC Y'S..COMPUTERS CAN TELL ABOUT US; WHO CA N..TRUST THOSE SUPERCOOLED BEHEMOTHS..TH AT CONTROL THE SUPERPOWERS'..ARSENALS?.. . BUT PERSONAL COMPUTERS ARE SLOWLY..EM ERGING FROM THE "1984" STIGMA.... AND W HAT BETTER PLACE TO SEE THIS..EMERGENCE THAN WITH THOSE THAT HELPED..CREATE OUR FEAR IN THE FIRST PLACE--..WRITERS. SOM E OF THE EARLIEST CRITICS..OF THE COMPUT ER REVOLUTION-- WRITERS..AND SCHOLARS-- ARE NOW SOME OF THE..MOST ENTHUSIASTIC P C USERS OF ALL.... THE REASON IS SIMPLE -- WORD..PROCESSORS. IN FACT, WORD PROC ESSOR..SOFTWARE MAY BE SOLELY RESPONSIBL E FOR..BRINGING THE HUMANITIES INTO THE. .COMPUTER AGE.... EACH DAY, THOUSANDS O F PROFESSIONAL..WRITERS SIT DOWN IN FRON T OF THEIR..KEYBOARDS TO SUMMON THEIR MU SE...NOT MANY ARE BOTHERED THAT THE MUSE ..USES THE WONDERS OF THE SILICON CHIP.. TO RESPOND.... JUST THINK-- IT'S ENTIRE LY POSSIBLE..THAT IF GEORGE ORWELL HAD H AD ACCESS..TO TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY, "1984" WOULD..HAVE BEEN WRITTEN WITH A COMPUTE R.... SYMBOLS EVOLVE.... IT IS A MEASU RE..OF OUR NEW-FOUND COMFORT WITH THE ID EA..OF "COMPUTERS" THAT WE ARE WILLING T O..INCORPORATE THEM IN OUR MOST..PERSONA L, AND HUMAN, ENDEAVOR--..WRITING...---- ---< END OF ARTICLE >-------------.
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