As discussed in earlier chapters, the disruptive effects of technology on attention could be seen as ultimately positive or negative (or, more realistically, as sophisticated combinations of both), with much depending on the disposition and agenda of the viewer. Yet taken as a whole, the disruptions caused by technology do not form a recognizable pattern or directionality. The disruption comes without any particular teleological outcome or preordained conclusion. As a consequence, observers of technology have always had an easy time convincing the public that the stamp they wish to imprint on any given new technology is both plausible and inevitable, a move that has applied equally well to tech adherents and doubters. Adherents are then unceremoniously dismissed as too-ardent believers, while doubters are derisively labeled Luddites (Frischmann, 2019). Because both sides have a seemingly realistic claim to credibility, both receive equal attention in the popular media. And thus any given new technology could manage to inhabit two quantum states of existence simultaneously-apparently both the best and the worst thing to happen to humankind, if one merely interprets various receptions to that technology juxtaposed to each other.