Ruby’s Reviews > The Terminal Man > Status Update

Love the emphasis on the detrimental effects of technology on identity and community. Even though this is from the 70s it rings even more true today

“But there was something inhuman about living inside a cocoon of tinted glass & stainless steel, air-conditioned, carpeted, stereophonic tape-decked, power-optioned, isolated. It thwarted some deep human need to congregate, to be together, to see & be seen.”

“But after several years it was no longer wonderful. The box was inhuman and implacable, and it had come to symbolize for him the fact that he was not his own man.”