1985 Quote by Don DeLillo

“You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal existence on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.” quote by Don DeLillo — Download Open image

““You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal existence on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.””

Don DeLillo

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1985 Death Faith Murray Nature Technology

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