Well hang on. If the iPhone is a vessel for self-love (I think psychiatric jargon is overused) wasn't the television a vessel for equally unattractive qualitie

Well hang on. If the iPhone is a vessel for self-love (I think psychiatric jargon is overused) wasn't the television a vessel for equally unattractive qualities? But you wouldn't dismiss television engineering - a fantastic body of work, from the rudimentary spinning disks to the latest codecs, just because the content is adapted to the low minds of the masses. I think the internet gave us an unrealistic reference point, because for a few happy and accidental years it was a network of the intelligent. Perhaps most technologies are more like television or smartphones.