There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's notโ - โlike a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.
Howard RheingoldDoesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.
Howard Rheingold