It is said that modern technology like the Internet has the capacity to bring the people of this world closer together, just as it was claimed during the Industrial Revolution that canals and trains would bring people closer together by breaking down the barriers of distance, and therefore of estrangement. Mass distributed technology however does not make the masses more humanist, more reasonable or more cooperative - it simply amplifies what is already there, and that includes the animal and the base, as well as the noble. Mass technology and mass society brings humans out into sharp relief, and it is an image that will increasingly overload the senses with a combination of admiration and revulsion.