The Null Device

2000/1/10

Slightly tongue-in-cheek Salon article proves that Borges wrote about the Web:

What are the "infinite stories, infinitely branching" of his character Herbert Quain's book "April March," if not hypertext? What is the purpose of Ireneo Funes, the paralyzed young man unable to forget any aspect of anything he has ever seen, if he is not to represent search engines burdened with memories of long-inactive links? What is Tlön, the virtual world in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" that gradually overtakes the real one, if not the cyberspace for which the physical world is rapidly becoming a quaintly antiquated sketch?

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David Bowie enters the online banking business:

Depositors in Bowiebanc.com, as the bank is known, get ATM cards, checks and other banking paraphernalia emblazoned with Bowie's name and image as well as a year of Bowienet service.

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