Our society is becoming one composed of people who are both physically and socially separated from each other. This physical separation of people from one another derives from multiple forces. The avenue which I am focusing on is the increase of electronic communication technologies, and how this has allowed people to draw away from one another physically; in fact, these advances have made physical interaction almost entirely unnecessary. Business deals can be "shook" upon, your grand-daughter can be conversed with, and all the important news of the day can be discovered - all through electronic mediums. These mediums simulate physical contact, substituting real contact (buying a news paper, visiting your grand-daughter) with an electric touch, making all of us, in effect, cyborgs: part human, part machine (Olalquiaga). In addition, this separation has instilled all of us with a fear of one another, which has manifested itself in a growing security industry, as well as a growing image industry, generating images of "fear" and images of "security". This cyclical relationship, in which our own terror of each other leads us to separate - thereby making fantastic images of the "Other" our only contact with them, thus reinforcing and creating stereotypes - has become a driving force in the lives of everyone living in our postmodern society. Early catalysts and key events of this cycle include shifts and upheavals in the hierarchical labor movement and a middle-class flight to the suburbs. This society, claims Canetti, has left reality and is living in a world of simulacra (Davis 1990; Canetti, in Kellner): images based on nothing but other images, and real citizens living in fear of and up to the reputation of, these images.