We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.
Howard RheingoldFinding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.
Howard RheingoldIt's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.
Howard RheingoldMaybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.
Howard Rheingold