Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. - Marshall McLuhan

The field of 'information theory' began by using the old hardware paradigm of transportation of data from point to point.

The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the ground rules of the environment. The ground rules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serves as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. (p. 93)

For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That's why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient.