Obsolescent technologies

Alice on clunkpunk. It's a great post, go and read it if you have ever enjoyed a William Gibson novel or mourned the passing of the typewriter. Alice also regularly (and this is a good example of it) does an interesting thing with the form of the blog post that isn't quite like how it works in most writers' hands--blogging becomes a uniquely useful imaginative investigative tool for thinking! Let us now contemplate the appeal of the speculative mode...