Our society still hasn't processed just how fundamentally different the psychological experience of today is from the rest of humanity's existence, just as rece

Our society still hasn't processed just how fundamentally different the psychological experience of today is from the rest of humanity's existence, just as recently, say the 1980s or 1970s. Prior to the advent of smartphones and ubiquitous computation and surveillance, social media and the narcissism economy, one could actually live their own lives from a first person perspective without worrying about people looking over their shoulder every single second. Now, today, we are literally carrying around an audience with them everywhere, whether that be the photos they may consider posting to Instagram, or the machine learning algorithms monitoring their location to figure out what advertising to direct at them, or government surveillance to determine if they are some kind of threat. Heck, people even install apps that monitor their sleeping patterns and upload that data to a third party. It's almost as if we have created either the all-seeing eye of Sauron, or a tiny portable film crew following everyone around all the time for our egos. I, for one, do not plan to put anything in my brain I have not designed myself, and for sure nothing that auto-updates!