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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

— Nam June Paik

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Source: In: Douglas C. McGill, ART PEOPLE, New York Times, October 3, 1986
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