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W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history

• smitty1e 1y ago
  We Await Silent Tristero's Empire
• jauntywundrkind 1y ago
  No Pychon references? The underground postal service in Crying of Lot 49. That's what Nullsoft (of Winamp fame)'s P2P app WASTE was named in reference to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE
  • smitty1e 1y ago
    Did you miss my reply?
  • cempaka 1y ago
    Some of his paranoid-aware readers believe Pynchon's W.A.S.T.E. may have been an early reference to the ARPANET/internet, which (in this reading of events) Pynchon was read into some of the plans for.