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Zittrain spoke of the recently released novel Riding the Bullet by Stephen King, which was made available on the Internet with one stipulation--users could read the book online but could not print out copies...
...poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool, only the price turned out to be a little high." Ditto Gatsby, which ends as Sunset Boulevard began, with police and photographers peering into the bloody water at a man, full of bullet holes, who had wanted a pool to impress the girl whose voice was full of money...
...amazing how clunky and unproductive an economy becomes once its people despise and subvert all its big institutions. Members of the Russian mafia don't shoot people because they like to. They shoot them because in Russia these days a bullet is the quickest way to get things accomplished. In such places, industrial consumerism just curls up and vanishes. Black markets take its place; there are no more fast-food chains, so everybody eats lunch out of the trunk...
Book lovers are the Luddites of the intellectual world. I can no more imagine their giving up the printed page than I can imagine a picture in the New York Post showing the Pope technoboogieing the night away in a disco. My adventure in cyberspace (Riding the Bullet, available on any computer near you) has confirmed this idea dramatically. My mail and the comments on my website www.stephenking.com reflect two things: first, readers enjoyed the story; second, most didn't like getting it on a screen, where it appeared and then disappeared like Aladdin's genie...
...Katyushas close to the border. "This system won't have much advanced warning, which makes its task that much more challenging. Then again, it has the advantage of speed, attacking its target with a sustained beam that travels at the speed of light rather than trying to hit a bullet with another bullet." Although the U.S. says it has no plan to field laser weapons of its own, if THEL proves successful in testing for attack by multiple rockets, the temptation will certainly grow. While Ronald Reagan's lasers-in-space missile shield may be some way off, yet, what...