A sort of “computer interface claustrophobia” felt when using mobile phones is part of the reason, I think. Lack of space, like lack of time, is stressful. Al

A sort of “computer interface claustrophobia” felt when using mobile phones is part of the reason, I think. Lack of space, like lack of time, is stressful. Also, the web became a more professional and commercialized environment, which brings its own problems. > Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly and [sic] unaware. The “expert” is the man who stays put. —Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore in The Medium Is the Massage - An Inventory of Effects