way ahead of his time:

"There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadgetridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish." (The Long Goodbye, 1953)

The other day I was reading an ad for Google's new operating system, Chrome. Or maybe it's for their browser of the same name; I don't really care. It's "for people who live on the web". I guess people who live in reality don't really care what operating system they use.