Sony was so concerned about the hermetic loneliness of the experience that its first model had two headphone jacks and a button to talk to the other person plugged in if you felt too alone.[43] The New York Times reported that “the orange button was like a panic button, an emergency ‘share’ feature,” and that a Sony cofounder later wrote that “the company was hesitant to release a product that could be considered selfish.”[44]
