Ultimately, the impact of synthetic imagery may be even more profound than the revolutions in consciousness previously caused by photography which has been responsible for foregrounding seeing over the other senses, compressing space, highlighting the fractional second while appearing to arrest time, making both the far away and exceedingly small visible, and concretizing the present as the past, superseding human memory. 
— Fred Ritchin, Exiting the Photographic Universe, 2022.