The history of mankind has been the search for more energy. But mankind solved this problem finally. Now we possess too much energy. Our present problem is control of and communication of the energy.
Norbert Wiener

thinking … implies a sort of groping experimentation and its layout resorts to measures that are not very respectable, rational, or reasonable. these measures belong to the order of dreams, of pathological processes, esoteric experiences, drunkenness, and excess. we head for the horizon, and return with bloodshot eyes.
deleuze & guattari, what is philosophy

I think that is an important phenonmenon: things moving from the realm of the medical or the industrial or the engineering realm into the the realm of the poetic, the abstract and the arty. In a way it shows that the arty is carnivorous. In a weird kind of way it is stronger than the engineering because it gets to feed on the leavings of the other one. I mean, engineering doesn’t feed on dead art, but art can feed on dead engineering. So, there’s something very provocative going on there. I mean, the strength of art is underestimated. So, I think about art seriously, and I like to think about the future of art, the long term future of art, like what might art be like 200 years from now. There’s never been a time when we were without it. There are tremendous cave paintings from 20,000 years ago.
Bruse Sterling

These (Kant’s) ideas say, among other things, that the form of the world we experience, its actual geometry and its actual temporality, is the way it is because of the way our self-consciousness is as rational, formally intelligible and universalistic in both form and content. Presumably, on Kant’s program, if our rationality were to change in the right way, the world itself would come to have different properties. I believe this is a testable proposition.
Carl H. Flygt, Conversation. A New Theory of Language