Technology makes the world a new place.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

…ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.