"I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very cl...
Sex × Technology = the Future.
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"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interest...
"These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of invo...
"The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.
"We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languag...
"The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
"the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything ...
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.
"Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, wi...
"Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.
"All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy ...
"She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless—an interesting logic was at work ther...
"Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, rose...