People are beginning to demand balance in their lives. Be wary of technology. Adapt it to your uses, rather than you adapting to it. Don't be overwhelmed. You simply can't keep up with everything, there's too much.
Raw information is raw potential.
It has no value until it is converted to knowledge. Conversation 1 David Shenk tells Paula Gordon and Bill Russell how media have turned all of our homes into the equivalent of Times Square. Television is Shenk's example of how even familiar technologies are now dramatically different. He describes how culture evolves much more rapidly in humans than do our body and brain. He makes a strong case for people being more skeptical.