The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.

What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.