Experimental Culture.

Mills ed., Turning Away From Technology(1997):
Chet Bowers. . .The computer also amplifies the current, modern orientation toward a highly experimental culture: The assumption is that as we become more experimental with the foundations of our cultural experience we are more progressive--that is, we are increasingly relying upon untested knowledge, on forms of knowledge that may or may not survive in the long term. This characteristic amplifies a cultural view of temporality that frames experience in terms of immediate problem solving. In other words, the computer reinforces the modern sense of temporality by reducing the awareness that we are connected in time with the past and the future, (pp. 182-183).