Michel Houellebecq

Now that downloading technology is available to everybody, some people have massive audio collections of everything ever released, while others are condemned to listen to Badly Drawn Boy exclusively, forever.

Oh, yeah . . . but consider that in my house we have a motley collection of three computers that I repaired from not working and the one that has a sound card, hates the internet and I could swap the soundcard into the other one but . . . etc. Technology is different for poor people, George Orwell's vision of a broken down 1984 . . . not the smooth edges of 2001 a Space Odyssey . . . aesthetic guidelines look beautiful in the air but disintegrate once they reach the ground? or something.