• If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

    Jaron Lanier: If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
    "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.