D: All Things Digital Conferences
we have come to live among flows of data more vast than anything the world has seen. Demystification is the order of our day, all the cats are jumping out of all the bags and even beginning to mingle. We immediately suspect ego insecurity in people who may still try to hide behind the jargon of a specialty or pretend to some data base forever “beyond” the reach of a layman. Anybody with the time, literacy, and access fee can get together with just about any piece of specialized knowledge s/he may need…the problem has really become how to find the time to read anything outside one’s own specialty.
— Thomas Pynchon, writing on the subject of Ludditism for the New York Times Book Review in 1984