Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

"Every point in the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang Foucault's Pendulum from it"

I always find it delightful when older books rave about new technologies we now take utterly for granted. Here, it’s word processors. How quickly they let you type! How thoroughly you can make your mistakes vanish! How find-replace allows you to magically alter names and places throughout the text! How you can password-protect your writing so nobody else can read it! The occult powers of the UNDO button!