The Crying of Lot 49 Technology and Modernization Quotes

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Quote #10

For it was now like walking among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe endless. (6.148)

Why does Oedipa have this sensation at this moment? Why do you think she settles on the imagery of a "digital computer" to explain how she is feeling?