When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, …

- Paul Virilio

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-rea…

- Paul Virilio

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

- Paul Virilio

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

- Paul Virilio

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

- Paul Virilio

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the information…

- Paul Virilio

Virtuality will destroy reality.

- Paul Virilio

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

- Paul Virilio

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

- Paul Virilio