With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you; it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.I feel that this quote is being taken out of context frequently. The rest of his speech is about the power of education and democracy, and is actually very good.