Plenty of devices, little moral certainty
The saved web poem turns technological abundance into an unresolved question about trust and public life.
A repeated question changes direction
The page preserved under the netart route contains a poem attributed to Anjali Arora and bearing a 2001 copyright notice. Its opening celebrates fast communication, useful devices and abundance. Repetition then changes the force of that optimism: the same progress is set beside dishonesty, violence and disappointment in public heroes.
The form carries the reversal
The work’s movement is rhetorical rather than an argument about a particular device. A recurring question first invites agreement and later unsettles it. Its animal imagery belongs to that moral vocabulary; it does not turn the page into a wildlife reference. The closing appeal redirects attention from conquering external space toward the cultivation of judgement.
A modest recovery of a literary object
This note reads the saved text without reproducing the poem. The copyright notice is not treated as proof of a precise creation date, and no claim is made that a complete original interaction has been replayed. The historical URL now reconnects a particular authored web text with its argument, while the linked capture remains the place to examine its wording.
Sources and edition note
This is new independent writing at the historical /netart address. It reconnects the specific work or project described above. It does not claim byte-for-byte restoration, original browser behaviour, current artist representation or operation of an earlier service. Source images, documents and full texts remain at their archival sources.