"Every technology of the word from the invention of writing to the invention of the INternet has given those who use it new range and power and intimacy of one kind, but dissolved a little further the physical bonds of face-to-face community. There is similar loss and gain ahead, no question" (Avatars 157-58).	"Portrait of a Newer, Lonelier Crowd Is Captured in an Internet Survey" (NYT)
"Perhaps what is wrong is our assumption that a society needs a single coherent central community of discourse in order to function. It certainly can be argued that the shaping of such central communities has damaged the ability of real historic societies to find a place in themselves for people and communities at the margin. But would not a society without a common discourse be a chaotic thing? it does not take a cynic to retort, 'as compared to what?' If we succeed in creating a commonality at the level of social infrastructures, we may need less and less of the self-conscious, problem-solving, meddling superstructure that once seemed necessary" (Avatars 160).	"Clinton Hopes to Raise Indian Internet Use"(NYT) "Clinton Has 'Digital Divide' Plan" (NYT)
"Perhaps one way to make a fresh self-awareness easier is to make ourselves deliberately more conscious of the unnaturalness of this whole affair our culutre has had with books. We long ago ceased to see the oddity of textuality and its institutions" (Avatars 91).	"Is This the End of the Story for Books" (NYT)
"There is something about academic life that drives men (and as near as I can tell, almost exclusively men) to write books about it, sure their readers will be content to hear a story they already know" (Avatars 167).	"Changing Girls' Attitudes About Computers" (NYT)
"Everything thus tells us to emphasize collaboration, interaction, and student activity. . . . The seminar can be instead the common workshop or the task force producing the common product" (185-86).	What do you think?