Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
J. G. Ballard
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
- J. G. Ballard