If I were writing the same essays now, I would lay much more stress on the fact that all our new technologies affect us in tandem. They modify our reflexes and expectations at the same time that they wrap us up in an invisible fabric—like the one that the fabled Emperor wore, only this fabric is strangely actual, and capable of obscuring the nakedn

I also wanted science fiction to be more naturalistic. There had been a poverty of description in much of it. The technology depicted was so slick and clean that it was practically invisible. What would any given SF favorite look like if we could crank up the resolution? As it was then, much of it was like video games before the invention of fracta

Becoming digitally Amish is not really an option. And there is no prescribed length of time you could take a break from your screen that will actually make life ok again. If you think that the former tech bros in Silicon Valley—all of whom are now having second thoughts about what they have created—are going to find a way to fix this, think again.