People aren’t supposed to be like me, sing like me, live like me, but now they’re paying me fifty thousand dollars a year for me to be like me.
“Invisible technologies rule our lives, transmitting their data-loads at the speed of an electron. Vast cash balances move around the world’s banking systems, bounced off satellites we never see, but whose electromagnetic footprints bestride continents and form our real weather.”
J. G. Ballard | “Impressions of Speed”