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My older brother talked to him about how difficult it was to find work, something my younger brother already knew because he had been applying for jobs where he was, in Utica, for over a year – counsellor, technological writer, librarian's assistant, anything to do with words that paid better than minimum wage.
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Any observer of science fiction today would have to conclude that as Africa emerges from political strife and enters an uncharted phase of hyperspeed technological development, African writers are certain to produce much of the most fascinating sci-fi of the century ahead.
"You had this weird moment in history, a confluence of cultural, business and technological circumstances, that allowed writers to be in charge," he said.
Kenner related his own satisfaction in technological advances to favorite writers like Samuel Beckett in his incisive "The Mechanic Muse" (1987), in which Beckett's style is praised as a "proto-computer-language". Kenner was equally innovative in the more traditional area of showing how literature responds to eternal human concerns.
Indeed, so little has happened in this time (except, of course, for all the all-important caveat of technological change), according to the writer and broadcaster Kurt Andersen, that we are still listening to the same music, watching the same sort of tv shows, wearing the same style of clothing, driving the same kind of cars and living in the same kind of homes as we were in late Eighties.
Then it finally dawned on me: I also live in this wondrous technological age where any failed writer can post his work, without hindrance of editor, good conscience or talent.
While Bookchin is more of a technological optimist than Mumford, both writers have inspired a regional turn in environmental thinking.
"The Saudis are technological determinists," Ziauddin Sardar, a British writer on Islam, whose book, "Mecca: The Sacred and the Profane City," will be published next year, told me.
The apparent recent increase in the activity of ghost writers, often facilitated by various technological means, can cast sufficient doubt over the authorship of take-home essays to invalidate the assessment.
A closer parallel is Bengal, the Indian province whose economy was destroyed by the technological strength of northern Britain in what the writer Jeremy Seabrook has called "the first great de-industrialisation of the modern world".
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