“WE ARE ON OUR WAY to a new life where “everybody knows your name” – and your Social Security number, computer passwords, financial status, Debt card PIN , credit rating physical address and present whereabouts etc.’
‘The computer network is a handy device for writers, but does the internet improve the quality of what gets written ?
When words were carved in stone we got the Ten Commandments
When we had to make our own ink and chase a goose around the yard to get a quill we got William Shakespeare.
When the fountain pen was invented we got Henry James
When the typewriter came along we got Jack Kerouac
And with the internet we get – the President of the United States on Twitter.
When it comes to crypto currency and computer connectivity , just be sure that this ‘progress doesn’t do to your money what it’s done to literature .
P.J. ORourke.
