essentially i agree, although i don't think it had anything to do with technology in particular, but the modernization of culture and communication..which was partially the result of technology, but also just the direction of popular taste and social/cultural identity etc...
i spent wayyy too much time reading that stuff in college... > > but a lot of it seems to be the writings of a man desparately > > trying to cling onto something that was fast disappearing whilst > > technology washed over him like a huge wave.