Miguel de Maria -> RE: Most Orwellian Experience of the Year (Dec. 12 2013 15:43:13)
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That sucks :(. Most Orwellian thing I've seen this year: Having dinner with some relatives. Two twentysomething girls at the next table, sitting facing each other. They've got their plates in front of them. Lying neatly on the table to the right of their napkins, arranged as carefully and formally as their silverware, are their smartphones. As I was irresistably drawn, periodically, to their vignette by its gruesomeness, I gauged that by far most of their time "together" was spent compulsively checking their Facebook or whatever "social media" disease they had recently caught. If they ever looked each other in the face or spoke to each other, I didn't see it.
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