They are all really just cell phones plugged into the internet, linking with fixed stations, videophones, virtual reality devices, computers, modems, data banks, tradesmen, managers, repairmen. All are logged in to technical, social or professional networks. There are no black holes, no negatives, no opposites in this joined-up world. Everything runs smoothly in electronic silence. Even the occasional audible signal can be turned off.
Communication is easy when all it involves is using machines to connect with machines.
If you want to stop communicating, to enjoy your own company, all you have to do is put down the handset and switch off the screen. Anyone using such machines is free and happy in a world of instant communication, without time to think ill of himself or of anyone else. The long term doesn't exist in this world, only short-term gains. The communications industry dreams of productivity, utility and management, the watchwords of homo communicans . Homo communicans is inseparable from his communication devices.