“Many experts today claim that technology has become an autonomous force, by itself determining the pace and direction of major social trends. They insist that television is turning Americans into a society of a thousand niche channels, ensconcing people in private cocoons and dissolving the glue of civic life. They say that computers are enthroning the individual and undermining social authority and that a cyberspaced information revolution is overwhelming governments, globalizing the economy, and rendering national borders irrelevant.”

The Fourth Turning

- William Strauss,Neil Howe