Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it'…

- Bryan Appleyard

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

- Bryan Appleyard

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

- Bryan Appleyard

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

- Bryan Appleyard

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

- Bryan Appleyard

Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge …

- Bryan Appleyard

It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism c…

- Bryan Appleyard

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the sam…

- Bryan Appleyard

That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the s…

- Bryan Appleyard