“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extend they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages or we remain mute”. JG Ballard
"The Web is nothing more and nothing less than what the World has always been: unvisited and unfriendly territories that are gradually transformed into a domestic landscape. From the Alps to the Japanese garden, this is the scenario: the illusory promise of order and system. But still, the simple rocks and sand in the well-arranged composition of a Japanese garden, for a better-trained intellect, are black holes and chaos.
The Web came from this chaos; in a certain way it came directly out of the Trojan Horse described in Homer’s Iliad and now we are all Ulysses, lost in the ocean all over again. But we are not traveling alone: there is a special spirit that helps us navigate and that is the spirit of Telic.
Telic is our relationship with the tools that help us to design the World and to see things in a perspective. It is in mobile phones and computers, but it’s even in the way our houses and clothes are made. Our times are Telic."
Read this essay this morning by Greek Painter Miltos Manetas. Far out there (or is it?) but definitely an interesting read. I suggest he dive right into the Science Fiction world.
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