to ruin conversation!" And of course that's not what happened. Every time there's a new piece of technology, we hear, "It's destroying us, it's destroying and eroding the social fabric. It's making us less human!" But honestly, the first industrial revolution really dehumanized people. It turned people into machines. If you looked at people spinning wheels and giant fibers in textile mills, if you look at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory that locked its workers in and burned to the ground, you had this dehumanization of humans and human labor. And you had people basically working at machines as machines, as cogs in a machine. That's why you had The Wizard of Oz book come out where it's all about Dorothy and the giant locust terrorising the mid-west. You have the industrial tin man who, as man industrialises, wonders if he has a heart anymore. And you have the scarecrow who is the prototypical farmer -- can the farmer industrialise and have a brain? It was all these dehumanization of reality. So what happened when the cellphone and all this technology appeared was that it suddenly allowed people to talk to each other no matter whether they were in a weird, isolated industrial suburb or city or strange environment. Suddenly, it re-stitched the social fabric back together and allowed people to communicate with each other. And when the cellphone came out, it stitched people even more closely together -- it allowed people to text each other when they were not at