Your Phone Habits Aren’t Just About You

I’ve been slowly rereading Antón Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making, one of the most profound books in recent years on how the digital era is reshaping civilization. One of its key insights is how human interconnectedness makes the digital revolution’s effects inescapable. Even those who resist or withdraw from online life do so against the backdrop of a world fundamentally shaped by it.Another takeaway exposes the temptation to remake and reconfigure the physical environment (even our bodies a