Ways David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Predicted the Future

[Outdoorsman]

Very interesting novel...brilliant stream-of-consciousness style that reminded me much of Joyce...

While reading it I sorted the tech he described in his own invented terms and compared them to what's available now... there are many parallels...

I recommend reading it...

If you need priming listen to his 2013 commencement speech--This is Water--delivered at Kenyon College...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

[andystevens91]

The speech was delivered in 2005, and published as a book in 2009. Also, David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008.

[lomnakkus]

Just listened to that and... wow. I'm soooo stoked to be about to read Infinite Jest now.

[h0l0cube]

Nearly all of the 'predictions' outlined in the article are present in Stand on Zanzibar which was first published in 1968.

[icpmacdo]

For fellow people on HN, if your have not read Infinite Jest I very highly recommend the audiobook version of it. I was not able to get through it reading it as its such a large book but I found the audio version quite enjoyable.

[canjobear]

How does the audiobook handle the endnotes? I tried to read it once and the endnotes were often pretty important.

[jmcgough]

related: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-michael/donald-trump-is-u... ("Donald Trump Is Ushering In the Infinite Jest Apocalypse")