INFINITY OVER ZERO by Cole Coonce, PART THREE: PUSHING THE ENVELOPE

PART THREE: PUSHING THE ENVELOPE

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THE NEXT DAY

The 50th Anniversary of Chuck Yeager’s supersonic flight goes by. There is no activity on the lake bed, except for maintenance on the machines.

Standing outside of Bruno’s, I see Danny Jo and we start talking about the spiritual nature of machines and how technology may be filling a metaphysical void. “Kant says that experience is the key to the Universe,” he tells me. A train goes by. “The faster you go, the closer you are to God,” he says.