The world, which from the dawn of time has been myth, fantasy, fable, becomes realized through technology. This materialism seems to me to be a catastrophe in the etymological sense of the term. It is a sort of death where everything takes on the garb of reality. You can imagine a point where all thoughts waiting to be thought will be immediately realizable by means of a computer. I am not condemning technology, it’s fascinating, it can produce marvelous special effects. But with this faculty of giving reality to the world, then the possible, the imaginary, the illusory all disappear. ...A world without any illusory effects will be completely obscene, material, exact, perfect
Mike Gane. Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews. London: Routledge, 1993:44
