When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. - Marshall McLuhan

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: “We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.