New technologies arrive in elegant wrappings of promise. The new software promises greater processing speed, television a sharper picture, new car less engine noise, and so on. We are drawn to pleasures of such promises. However, cost/benefit analysis from which we proceed at this point of possible ownership severely limited. The absent voices largely go unheard. If we take the latest into our lives, how will they be changed personally and collectively? Of prominant importance, we seldom ask about repercussions of our choices for quality of life. Only within recent decades have scholars turned concerted attention to societal transformations facilitated by ever increasing appetite for technological progress. The critical and cultural analysis of television opened door to significant scholarship. More recent analysis has turned to impact of internet.
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