Before mobile devices made around-the-clock communication possible and expected, it was generally only in the case of life or death, when a relative or other person close to us was sick, that we made ourselves unceasingly available, staying close to the phone at all times, just in case it might bring news. It was in the face of a potential emergency that we felt it necessary to live in a state of hyperreadiness, to be on call without a break. What’s different now is that we are living in this state of hyperreadiness around the clock. In fact, we are not only living this way, we believe that we
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