After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted o… - J. G. Ballard

Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.

The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.