Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.
Howard RheingoldThe manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.
Howard RheingoldThe Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
Howard RheingoldThe mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.
Howard Rheingold