Crary 80: "The relatively sudden and ubiquitous reorganization of human time and activity accompanying television had little historical precedent."
"All of the myriad ways in which time had been spent, used, squandred, endured, or parcellized prior to television time were replaced by more uniform modes of duration and a narrowing of sensory responsiveness."
81: "In spite of more transient and uprooted lifestyles following the war, television's effects were anti-nomadic: individuals are fixed in place, partitioned from one another, and emptied of political effectiveness."