Finding 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 RheingoldWe are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
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