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As Janice points out, the real risk is of seeming dated.
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Yes, though people still write historical novels. I don't know why poets might avoid mentioning tech more than novelists do. Some tech merely offers new ways to do old things (FAX replacing pony-express) but others affect big issues. Medical developments affect childlessness, our notions of death (borderline cases increase), our notions of identity (transplants, brain-changing drugs and surgery, sex changing). Cell phones and video phones let us more easily be alone without being lonely. Space and Time aren't what they used to be.
Note also that the UK has
Informationist Poetry
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I haven't yet managed to track it down to Updike
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I can't recall where I read that - The Dark Horse? The source may well remain unknown. Updike's an unlikely inventor, I'd say.
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But I still remain curious to see if anyone else has any successful examples of such poetry. I remember coming across somewhere a very witty poem based on the language of spam.
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Perhaps the more interesting effects are deeper, more radical, than content - Flarf, HyperText poems, etc.