"And but so why the abrupt consumer retreat back to good old voice-only telephoning? The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2)

"And but so why the abrupt consumer retreat back to good old voice-only telephoning? The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2) physical vanity, (3) a certain queer kind of self- obliterating logic in the microeconomics of consumer high-tech." David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527 http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527