As someone who's been traveling for the last 10 months and currently am in Thailand, this was a very enjoyable read. Although cheap flights and smartphones wit

As someone who's been traveling for the last 10 months and currently am in Thailand, this was a very enjoyable read. Although cheap flights and smartphones with data and GPS have made the life of a traveler incredibly easier, the downside is the places you visit are more touristy and people I'd imagine are way less social (at least to the people directly around them). Often I'll arrive to a hostel just to see everyone in the common area silently glued to their smartphones. I wouldn't necessarily want to go back to a time before this technology, but there are certainly serious downsides to this hyperconnectivity. It's the same effect that technology is having on everyday life. The increased connectivity of the internet paradoxically withdraws us from our immediate surroundings.