Technologies collapse the distance between a desire and its fulfillment by reducing either the time or the effort involved. Thishas long been the point on that new technologies have been【S1】______marketing, and digital technologies have only augmented a【S2】______longstanding trend. But they have done so to such a degree and the【S3】______change may be qualitative. Consider the ease on which we may now【S4】______locate, purchase, and receive commodities that just a few years agowould have taken us considerably less time and trouble to acquire.【S5】______The content of a book is only one of a multitude of possible examples, but it illustrates the point remarkably well. Theoretical science in his view required aristocratic repose and leisure, andanything of the sort existed in America. Instead, Americans were【S6】______promiscuously active. All of this is marvelous and fascinating and helpful, but cranks, and I’m not always above being a crank, might point out that making something effortless and instant simultaneously renders it ephemeral and trivial. If you eliminate the effort and timeinvolved realizing a desire, you also diminish the satisfaction and joy【S7】______that attends the fulfillment. Beyond this, however, there is also a【S8】______matter of habits and assumptions and how these in turn shapeindividuals who together comprise of the political and economic【S9】______culture of the nation. What sorts of habits, then, are inculcated by a technological environment ordered around this general tendency Certainly not the kind of habits that sit well with the venerablenotion of delaying gratification. Nor, it would seem, would these【S10】______habits leave one well suited for the demands of citizenship.【S10】