Invisible technologies
The author JG Ballard reflects on invisible technologies and global networks in an annotation on Telstar in the guide for Whitechapel Gallery’s 1998 exhibition ‘Speed–Visions of an Accelerated Age’
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 electro-magnetic footprints bestride continents and form our real weather. In the near future aesthetic amd [sic.] cultural shifts in the planetary consciousness will move around the globe with the force and pace of tsunamis, replacing the slow, ancestral drift of politics and religion in the years before the information age.
Shared by Dr Niall Gallen, EDACS