Jerry Seinfeld once did a skit in which he imagined aliens looking down from space, seeing us scooping up our dogs’ poop, and assuming that it was our pets who were the real masters. Ten years on, what would extraterrestrials deduce if they observed us running around following the commands of little devices on our wrists and checking these tiny screens obsessively every few minutes? They’d likely conclude that some all-powerful overlord was telling us what to do at all times through these strange gadgets. This isn’t the stuff of science fiction or a stand-up comedy routine but a daily reality
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