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 RheingoldCommunication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.
Howard RheingoldHumans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
Howard Rheingold