As Kelly describes his experience growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s and 1960s, I was surrounded by technology. But until I was 10, my family had no television, and when it did arrive [I noticed how the] TV had a remarkable ability to beckon people at specifi c times and then hold them enthralled for hours…. They obeyed. I noticed that other bossy technologies, such as the car, also seemed to be able to get people to serve them, and to prod them to acquire and use still more technologies (freeways, drive-in theaters, fast food)…. As a teenager, I was having trouble hearing my own voice and it seemed to me my friends’ true voices were being drowned out by the loud conversations technology was having with itself.