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All the World’s a Screen and All the People Merely Users

Shakespeare once wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” And though he used that sentence to introduce a perceptive discourse on the roles we play in life, our current screen-filled landscape has given those famous words new meaning. For not only are we, indeed, players on a figurative stage, but these days our lives are constantly projected on a very literal one: That screen in all of our pockets.Today’s screens and their internet connection are, frankly, pre