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A character is either “real” or “imaginary”? If you think that, hypocrite lecteur, I can only smile. You do not think of even your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it, fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf—your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in flight from reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
At the end of the nineteenth century Maxwell and Faraday change this view of the world a little, by bringing in a new ingredient. This new ingredient is the electromagnetic field.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
The accelerated nature of change means we no longer have the luxury of keeping things the way they are. We should look at the way we see things as just one of the many possible ways, and consider whether the assumptions we make about how things should be and how they should work may well be what is preventing the positive change we seek. Tradition may provide our species with foundations, but it has a nasty habit of throwing up walls here and there.
4.7: Learn How to Use the Challenge Assumptions Method
The Interaction Design Foundation
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