> Orpheus pounds on the soundproof glass. He won’t get through—he’s mythical.

Our industry would be improved by opening the door for Orpheus.

There's a lot of interesting thinking in the last 100 years of literary theory for this new age of stochastic parrots, good to encourage people working in tech fields to dig into it for newly-relevant ideas.

Howe appears to be an adherent of the Burroughs/Gysin cut-up (later fold-in) technique of rearranging language to reveal how meaning is made which I'm sure has some teachings for tech practitioners in there.

"the writing machine is for everybody / do it yourself until the machine comes" (Gysin 1960)

Thanks for sharing