To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, and to assume that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, plain and simple stupidity. Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more id... See more

Men have become the tools of their tools," Henry David Thoreau warned in 1854; philosophers Marshall McLuhan and John M. Culkin later echoed: "We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us." Whenever our tools no longer serve our deeper purposes—drawing us instead into a vortex of infinite scrolls and notifications—intention has been subve... See more