Guy Debord, courtesy of here:
'We may fairly say of the present organization of society that, no matter what angle it is viewed from, it simply cannot afford life. For one thing, it is generally admitted that all the basic necessities of life, whether the life of trees or the life of human beings, are far beyond the means of our economic system. A lifestyle that in the past would have seemed simple, not to say ascetic, is an unheard-of-luxury today, in a world where simply to breathe fresh air and to enjoy peace and quiet is practically impossible anywhere. At the same time -- and certainly more importantly -- the technical means that this society has chosen to develop are those that enable it to dispense more and more thoroughly with living activity and individual initiative (and hence with those practical skills that once underpinned the proletarian project). It does without them so easily already, in fact, that it cannot see the need for them at all: the production of robots is naturally (or, rather, unnaturally) accompanied by the development of an environment suitable only for robots.''
And courtesy of The Young Hegelian, this little snapshot of life in L.A.:
'Next to the condom dispensers, loo visitors will usually find racks of post cards touting trendy consumer goods. More often than not, they will have an advert speaking in their ear whilst urinating (I'm afraid I can only speak for the gents, however). They are activated by motion sensors as one draws near the urinal.'