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As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Don DeLillo
Technology, Scope, Primitive
Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Don DeLillo
Technology, Lust
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

Don DeLillo
War, Technology, Realization
Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Don DeLillo
Technology, Littles, Faces
Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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
Technology, Hands, Lust

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Don DeLillo
Technology, People, Connections
Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

Don DeLillo
Character, Thinking, Technology
Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

Don DeLillo
Technology, Men, Blood
Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

Don DeLillo
Photography, Past, Technology
Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

Don DeLillo
Insecure, Technology, Thinking

Technology and violence are interdependent.

Don DeLillo
Technology, Violence
Interview with Cecilia Sjoholm, perival.com. 1994.

We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

Don DeLillo
Technology, Thinking, People
Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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