A lot of people, especially young people, have always felt that intuition to refuse. Most of that impulse has been managed as ‘art movements,’ so you have the surrealists, the modernists, the beats, hippies, punks, slackers, etc. These are in general people who feel like, Jesus, anything is better, even self-destruction is preferable to simply finding my place in such a sterile world.
“If one had to categorize the future in one word, it would be that word “home.” Just as the 20th century has been the age of mobility, largely through the motor car, so the next era will be one in which instead of having to seek out one’s adventures through travel, one creates them, in whatever form one chooses, in one’s home. The average individual… will have all the resources of a modern TV studio at his fingertips, coupled with data processing devices of incredible sophistication and power.”
J. G. Ballard | Penthouse, April 1979