Quote by Gunther Grass
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. – Gunther Grass

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. – Marshall McLuhan

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We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource Information that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is. – John Naisbitt

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Information is a negotiators greatest weapon. – Victor Kiam

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Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level. – Paul G. Thomas

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