[king-rat]

> Days can be gloomy; there are men and women who are very much alone, and many whom age or infirmity confines to their own company with which they are only too familiar. These men and women, reduced to boredom and gloom, can now fill their sad and useless hours with beauty or passion.

I wonder if he imagined that the very same technology he predicted would comfort us in our loneliness would also come to contribute to our increased alienation from one another.

[deltron3030]

I dont think that the alienation is actually true. What's different is that society has become more meta, people don't depend that much on their local social environment anymore, but they're still embedded in some kind of community. If you don't get sucked into some racist shithole then it's very likely that there's even more diversity than in your local community.