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Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.


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The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.



Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.



There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.



Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.



Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.



The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.



To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.



How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?


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Images contaminate us like viruses.

Images contaminate us like viruses.



Virtuality will destroy reality.

Virtuality will destroy reality.





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What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.




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