Digitized Existence Quotes

“For this really is the last straw, this aspiration to clear the way, with the digital, for the integral image, free from any real-world constraints. And we would not be forcing the analogy if we extended this same revolution to human beings in general, free now, thanks to this digital intelligence, to operate within an integral individuality, free from all history and subjective constraints ...

At the end-point of this rise of the machine, in which all human intelligence is encapsulated- a machine which is now assured of total autonomy as a result- it is clear that mankind exists only at the cost of its own death. It becomes immortal only by paying the price of its technological disappearance, of its inscription in the digital order (the mental diaspora of the networks).”
― Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?