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“Technology catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think. It changes people’s awareness of themselves, of one another, of their relationship with the world. The new machine that stands behind the flashing digital signal, unlike the clock, the telescope, or the train, is a machine that ‘thinks.’ It challenges our notions not only of

prompted an exodus from cities to suburbs and a shift from the public entertainments offered by theaters, amusement parks, and urban streets to the private diversions served up by televisions, radios, and hi-fi sets.

As our culture is rapidly becoming electronic, we are less and less what we were, a society of isolated individuals.

For electric light and power are separate from their uses, yet they eliminate time and space factors in human association exactly as do radio, telegraph, telephone, and TV, creating involvement in depth.

The housewife, like the factory hand, had become an essential cog in the great technological machine that was producing a more advanced civilization.