“You never heard about people ‘not having lives’ until about five years ago, just when all of the ‘80s technologies really penetrated our lives.” He listed them off: “VCRs tape rentals PCs modems answering machines touch tone dialing cellular phones cordless phones call screening phone cards ATMs fax machines Federal Express bar coding cable TV satellite TV CDs calculators of almost other-worldly power that are so cheap that they practically come free with a tank of gas.” “In the information Dark Ages, before 1976, before all of this, relationships and television were the only forms of
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