> Our 30-year bender of putting our lives online and blurring the public and the private has finally ended

I wish you were right. We took our kid to a stage show she really wanted to see. People round us kept checking their phones. They weren’t even really checking them. They held them and would turn the screen on and off, lighting the place up.

They couldn’t be without them for more than 5 minutes. This, after 30 mins of painful selfies before the show. It’s awful.