He’s ignoring the spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower in favor of the ordinary little screen in his palm,
I’ve been skeptical of smart phones and social media from the get-go, and with each passing year I worry more about how these technologies have damaged the way we interact with the one another, how we participate in the world. That’s one of the themes of this book, and not just in the fly-by commentary such as in this passage, but as a central plot element. We now rely so heavily on tech that we’ve made it inevitable for bad actors to exploit our dependencies for nefarious ends.
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