BP7-Historical Preservation

In Vernon Vinge’s “The Blabber” page 33, the narrator describes the city as a shell, pretending to be an old (by their standard, future by ours) city. We read the imagery of the skyline, the structures, the advertisements, the lights, and the activity. On our earth (old earth) there is a village called Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, in the 1930’s it was designed to look like it in the 18th century. Residents of the town pretend to live as they did in the old days, just like what’s happening in Middle America’s harbor city. An attempted recreation, struggling to act like the original also describes Hamid (a clone).