J. G. Ballard

For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-​destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.

J. G. Ballard, as interviewed by Jean-​Paul Coillard, “JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty,” Disturb (1998).