Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The brief span of an individual life is misleading. Each one of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened;… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
