People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.
Paul VirilioThese new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.
Paul VirilioTime is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
Paul VirilioBecause Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.
Paul Virilio