Virilio about technologies

>> „Both computers and atomic bombs are an outcome of the Second World War. Nobody ordered them. It was the strategic and military situation of the Second World War that brought them into being.Hence, they were not devised as communication tools but as a means of planning and conducting total war.“

 

>> „All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God. In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God“.