"In this way, with the progressive digitalization of audiovisual, tactile and olfactory information going hand in glove with the decline of immediate sensations, the analogue resemblance between what is close at hand and comparable would yield primacy to the numerical probability alone of things distant - of all things distant. And would in this way pollute our sensory ecology once and for all.
Paul Virilio
"Friend, did you bring me the silver, Friend, did you bring me the gold, What did you bring me my dear friend, To keep me from the gallow's pole.
Leadbelly, Shout On!
And you look at it and you say, “Wow, what a load of horseshit.”
John Scalzi
