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When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.

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Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

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I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

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I would say that the fundamental question of geography is about how humans shaped the Earth's surface and how we, in turn, are shaped by the ways in which we have shaped the Earth's surface. So, for me, geography was just a set of tools that allowed me to ask these kinds of questions and to try to think through them.

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The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

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In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and auto insurance policies, and much more. It will all happen automatically. In a very real way, our rights and freedoms will be modulated by our metadata signatures. What's at stake, obviously, is the future of the human race!

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In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And that's the way that I wanted to approach the question of state secrecy.

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I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

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I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.

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We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

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Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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