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diff --git a/preface.otx b/preface.otx index eee660a..34bfcf3 100644 --- a/preface.otx +++ b/preface.otx @@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ I have been dreading writing a preface for this, worried about my ability to remain emotionally composed while talking about what this is and why I'm reprinting it. Yet, I feel like I could provide too much assistance to understanding these artifacts to be able to comfortably abdicate this responsibility. Let me focus on relaying some objective matters, and try to save the hysterical meltdown for the end. +\vskip 1em + \Q{On a more sinister level, the security of the entire world now rests on the controls of the just such systems, and isn't it time we explored the outer limits of this for its impact effect on communication? Such systems are integral to all security systems at the military level, and even this terminal you are all using has more sophistication than I think some of you realize, e.g., for manipulating more complex programs in larger computers ranging in use from banking to missiles.} \Qs{Brendan O'Regan} +\vskip 1em + These conferences occurred on the first global chat systems, on ARPANET. Our first figure of cultural interest was involved in the design of these systems: Jacques Vallée. Google, the sickening fuckers, credit him as being a computer scientist and venture capitalist (and, perhaps most impressively, misspell his name), despite the fact that I imagine he's most well-known as an UFOlogist to those reading this. The transcripts themselves are dominated by Frank Gillette and Brendan O'Regan, two figures who couldn't possibly be more of-their-time. Let me introduce them. |