“As the Internet grows, and as our ability to be linked up [grows] ... at a certain point, we're gonna have to build some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die.”

-- David Foster Wallace talking to David Lipsky in 1996, as recounted in Lipsky's book, “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.”