Jonathan Quaade

when we expand a technology we expand it towards both the divine and the profane. But it is up to us to both define that which is divine/profane — instead of a broad acceptance of the profane as “just another use case that we can’t avoid”.

However, until I got into my 30s, my mindset was that there were all sorts of other wonderful things going on. I'd love to be polymathic; I was reading about the latest in many different sciences, but I was going to focus on Microsoft. You know, so for my 20s, I was monomaniacal. I did not read broadly. I definitely intimidated my competitors. My

Major public museums began to spring up in the 18th century, most notably the British Museum in 1759 and the Louvre in 1793. These institutions had largely grown out of private collections, in which artworks were displayed in dense, symmetrical arrangements that connoisseurs believed allowed for a better comparison of styles and movements. They

Our experience of visiting museums and galleries is traditionally characterised by the quasi-religious atmosphere: nothing is to be touched, one is rather quiet and reverent, nobody laughs, it is eerily still, nobody is allowed to talk loudly.

The novelist Kate Zambreno claims that when she is working, she often sees the same names and the same books everywhere: “I begin to make connections with everything—I see literature everywhere, a vast referentiality.”