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insights... hmm... i liked the ending... anyone?  --Mimesis

=Inspiration for InterLace=
Wallace's response to George Gilder's ''Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life'', in his essay ''E Unibus Pluram'':

'So, in sum, a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity, at TV's institutionalization of irony, narcissism, nihilism, stasis, loneliness. It's not our fault! It's outmoded technology's fault! If TV-dissemination were up to date, it would be impossible for it to "institutionalize" anything through its demonic "mass-psychology." Let's let Joe B., the little lonely average guy, be his own manipulator of video-bits. Once all experience is finally reduced to marketable image, once the receiving user of user-friendly receivers can break from the coffle and choose freely, Americanly, from an Americanly infinite variety of moving images ''hardly distinguishable from real-life images'', and can then choose further just how he wishes to store, enhance, edit, recombine, and present those images to himself in the privacy of his very own home and skull, then TV's ironic, totalitarian grip on the American psychic cojones will be broken. !!!'

This is pretty clearly Wallace's inspiration for the InterLace system. --[[User:Pyrocow|Pyrocow]] 19:14, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

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