This spiral, which app designers are eager to prolong and intensify, is tearing us away from our here and now—which is maybe not the “perfect” life we imagine in our Walter Mitty moments but which is the only life that has any chance of fulfilling us. Here’s the immutable reality that neither today’s scrolling nor tomorrow’s neural lace links will fix: We can’t be in two places at once. We can’t be on the beach in Cancun and also courtside with the kids at practice in Paducah. We have to choose. And having flown more than a million miles over the past few years, let me say: Skype can take a
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