"Satin Island" Quotes
A corporate anthropologist becomes obsessed with compiling a grand unified theory of everything in a world of technology and consumerism.
fiction | 192 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
We are, in short, a product of our information.
informationtechnology
The future, we’re told, is the product of our choices.
futurechoices
There are no more narratives, just data.
narrativedata
The world is being read. We are reading it.
perceptionobservation
The future, in other words, is just like the present, only longer.
futurepresent
We are condemned to ‘meaning’.
meaningphilosophy
The world is a set of data. It can be read and written.
worlddata
The more information we have, the more we lack a theory in which to put it.
informationtheory
We’re living in a world in which nothing is new, only reshuffled and reconfigured.
innovationcreativity
The world is being manufactured, we are manufacturing it.
manufacturingcreation
