“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”
Don DeLillo
White Noise: Text and Criticism
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“You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).”
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