“Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the revolution of the “dark satanic mills,” was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery … The modern industrial revolution [i.e., the computer revolution] is similarly bound to devalue the human brain …”* and with it, the book.

Jumel Terrace Books, closing the shop, August 1st.

* From Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener.