Because, hey, we got a tax cut. It's real easy to pick on our technology when the problem is ourselves. Here's my pager. But the pager doesn't know. All the pager does is beep when you call it.
Television vomits garbage into our living rooms every day in an unending stream.
The TV doesn't know what its doing. It's the programmers and the consumers who should share the blame. The computer doesn't know. I put it to you that the digital revolution has actually changed nothing. It's just a really fancy way to store what's in our heads.