Bryan Appleyard Quotes

#1. Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

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#2. Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

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#3. Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

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#4. In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

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#5. Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

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#6. Science has taken away our religion.

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#7. It is ... idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.

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#8. On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

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#9. Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

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#10. The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

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