"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."
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In: Douglas C. McGill, ART PEOPLE, New York Times, October 3, 1986
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Nam June Paik
(July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean–born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art.
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