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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...more

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No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: …there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. ...more

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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.

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Sex × Technology = the Future.

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The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

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However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner ...more

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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 ...more

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He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you c...more

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First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel ...more

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They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothi...more

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Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was th...more

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Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obse...more