Alex Steffen

People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.

American Writer

Howie Mandel

What is the luck of the draw that me - me - who finally writes a book, it comes out in the - in the - in the time, in the center of the first pandemic, H1N1? And I'm going out on signings, and I'm going out to the public. This is the one time when I need to be hermetically sealed.

Comedian

Thomas Jane

That's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.

American Actor

Naomi Alderman

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist.

English Novelist

Quentin Blake

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

English Cartoonist

Use 'hermetically' to describe something sealed so well that no air can enter or escape.

Literally Airtight

'Hermetically' implies no outside elements can penetrate the barrier, like a perfect bubble.

Complete Isolation

Often used in scientific or technical contexts where precise conditions are essential.

Technical Contexts

Use in a psychological sense to describe thoughts or feelings isolated from external influence.

Mental Fortress

Borrowed from its literal meaning, it can metaphorically signify social or cultural isolation.

Cultural Metaphor

Can suggest a protective measure to guard inner thoughts or intellectual property.

Protective Connotation

 are outdated in the new world into which we're moving. So how might we prepare for some of these specific threats, like attacking a president or a prime minister? This would be the natural government response, to hide away all our government leaders in hermetically sealed bubbles. But this is not going to work.