July 29, 2007

Molly Millions sez

One of the most enduring lines in William Gibson's oeuvre is

You can't let the little pricks generation-gap you.
(Molly, in Neuromancer, pg 59)
--a passage I keep handy for topical application (and used as the epigram for a prescient 1999 posting [alas, the graphs link doesn't work]).
Well, gappage happens. As a non-cellphone user I'm (happily) out of a bunch of loops anyway, but at my recent high school reunion I witnessed several of my contemporaries being taught the wonders of text messaging, and was content to adopt the anthropologist-watching-bizarre-behavior stance. The second cartoon in a Language Log posting today seems a balm.

Posted by oook at July 29, 2007 12:20 PM
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