Pynchon and the Badass Luddites

To close out Luddite week here at Rough Type, I would like to direct the Internet's attention (when the Internet pays attention, servers fail and nodes collapse, and a rictal grin spreads itself across Ned Ludd's bareboned face) to an article on the topic of Ludditism by Thomas Pynchon, which ran in the New York Times Book Review in that fabled year, 1984. Written nearly a decade before the World Wide Web would turn the Internet into a popular medium, the article is nevertheless entirely up t...