Burnt into our memories.
I probably encountered screensavers around the time I read Dune for the first time.
We are talking secondary school, the early years.
Words spinning in an abyss.
The folding of space - this is what computers do, right?
And screensavers for me were where you got to see this most clearly.
I am easily hypnotised, and have been since I was young.
We were all fascinated by screensavers, all of us early PC kids.
Which screensavers does it have?
Does it have the maze?
Does it have the fabled flying toasters which an American relative told me about?
That word again: depth.
The screen takes on depth, and you wonder what’s beyond it, beneath it, inside it.
“How wonderful that our computer needed to dream as preventative medicine!”
Never thought that about pylons before.
Never really looked at them.
I’ve missed this!
