People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the ironic outcome of this techno-scientific development is a renewed need for the idea of God.

You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

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.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.