This reminds me of David Foster Wallace's section in Infinite Jest about the anxiety-inducing video phone technology (very predictive, considering it was writte

This reminds me of David Foster Wallace's section in Infinite Jest about the anxiety-inducing video phone technology (very predictive, considering it was written in 1996) - "And the videophonic stress was even worse if you were at all vain. I.e. if you worried at all about how you looked. As in to other people. Which all kidding aside who doesn’t. Good old aural telephone calls could be fielded without makeup, toupee, surgical prostheses, etc. Even without clothes, if that sort of thing rattled your saber. But for the image-conscious, there was of course no such answer-as-you-are informality about visual-video telephone calls, which consumers began to see were less like having the good old phone ring than having the doorbell ring and having to throw on clothes and attach prostheses and do hair- checks in the foyer mirror before answering the door." http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527 http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527