Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.