Tag: always on culture

Tired after another long day, somewhere between last coffee and first irritation, I realised that I live inside a machine that never sleeps. Not a grand cosmic engine from Asimov’s Foundation, not even a gritty Morgan-style biotech nightmare. No, much worse: my own smartphone. A small rectangle that vibrates like a needy cat and occasionally shouts at me with a sound specifically engineered to activate the ancient lizard part of … Read the rest