The eating of a MacDonald's meal is like the reading of Reader's Digest--small, easily digested, carefully processed, carefully cu...t down, abridged. Reader's Digest gives us knowledge that is easily compartmentalized, simplified, ideologically sound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a tendency to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency to confuse logic with values, intelligenc...e with insight. Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead. Facts are terrible things if left sprawling and unattended. They are too easily regarded as evaluated certainties rather than as the rawest of raw materials crying to be processed into the texture of logic. It requires a very unusual mind, Whitehead said, to undertake the analysis of a fact. The computer can provide a correct number, but it may be an irrelevant number until judgment is pronounced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure fo...r processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The romance and mystery is [sic] gone. Computer-processed images have no delicacy, no craftsmanship, no substance, and no soul. No... love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »