You are not a Gadget

Silvana:

"The vast fanning out of the fates of these words will take place almost entirely in the lifeless world of pure information. Real human eyes will read these words in only a tiny minority of the cases."

In this paragraph the author is saying how even in a world where information is readily available anywhere people are mostly uncultured and are just empty shells whose lives center around the technology. These people read without understanding and mechanically repeat what they learnt from their machines without actually understanding it, which makes them behave no differently than a machine taught to say those words. Most of the people today are like this due to the amount of technology made available which makes our life so easy we don't even need to think anymore, and only a handful of people can still be considered actual people who will read and understand those words.

 Diana: 

"Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become."

The author tries to explain that communication is considered a difficult achievement, and that the "new generation" has problems of recognising the real value of people.

 Ismael: 

"When I work with experimental digital gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment, I am always reminded of how small changes in the details of a digital design can have profound unforeseen effects on the experiences of the humans who are playing with it."

In the text the author wants to let us know that the small details that are easy to do, can have a real and big effect on us. An that suprises him everytime he works with digital gadgets.