Paul Virilio Quotes

Our whole society is instantaneous.

In this era of instant communications, the people want instant results.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

We do live in this age of new media.

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

Living in the age of information and technology, everything gets out so easy and so, so quickly.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

I, for one, am not nearly as engaged when I'm looking at something that's been completely drawn up on a computer that replaces anything that's in real time and real space. It just engages me all the less, rather than all the more.

People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It’s more of a diminishment of anything that isn’t happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.

We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

Twitter is the world.