Quotes by Nam June Paik

“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.”

“I used the term (information superhighway) in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. Thats dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen.”

“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the bodys new membrane of existence.”

“The future is now.”

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the bodys new membrane of existence.

The future is now.