"But there was nothing about the little, low-rambling, more or less identical homes of Northumberland Estates to interest or to haunt, no chance of loot that would be any more than the ordinary, waking-world kind the cops hauled you in for taking; no small immunities, no possibilities for hidden life or otherworldly presence; no trees, secret routes, shortcuts, culverts, thickets that could be made hollow in the middle – everything in the place was right out in the open, everything could be seen at a glance; and behind it, under it, around the corners of its houses and down the safe, gentle curves of its streets, you came back, you kept coming back, to nothing; nothing but the cheerless earth."
Thomas Pynchon, "The Secret Integration"
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“When we got this on the freeway and it was doing 70 miles an hour and just smoothly driving along the road, you could taste it — the technology,” Urmson says. “You could really feel the impact and how it’s going to change people’s lives. It was just amazing.”
While he was talking, a motorcycle cut us off. The car saw the move coming, and we hardly even noticed.
Robot cars. I know, I know, there are ALL SORTS of caveats (political, technological, legal etc etc etc). But still. Robot cars!
