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Victor Turner Overdrive

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    Weizenbaum makes a compelling argument over several pages that the invention of the computer arrested social innovation and progress in institutions, allowing for the preservation of a conservative way of life that is both resistant to change and unable to deal with the complexity it itself created

    Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save—and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize —social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them. The computer, then, was used to conserve America's social and political institutions. It buttressed them and immunized them, at least temporarily, against enormous pressures for change. Its influence has been substantially the same in other societies that have allowed the computer to make substantial inroads upon their institutions: Japan and Germany immediately come to mind.
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  2. Still plodding along with my The Storm On The Sea of Galilee embroidery piece. Part 2 of ??? on artwork stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

    A framed length of damask fabric with a gold pattern on a green background. Down the center of the piece, the pattern has been partially embroidered over with the Rembrandt painting The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.A close up of a The Storm On The Sea of Galilee showing Jesus on the boat.
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