So what I'm out to do is turn the heat up a little. Think about that metaphor for just a second. American society as we know it is like a pot of lukewarm, noncommittal water. There's so little chaos out there. Most of it is in a state of media-mediated stasis.
Television is a medium that seems to have all the answers.
It takes up all of your senses - there's no room left to do anything at all. And television is THE defining information technology of our time. That is how they aim to get a computer in every home - get the price down by stripping it of its creative functionality and turning into a Web terminal. Wait a second. Information wants to be free.