Technological poverty is two gold iPhones one in each back pocket of a pair of $300 bedazzled bleached jeans. It's possible to be surrounded by very expensive

Technological poverty is two gold iPhones one in each back pocket of a pair of $300 bedazzled bleached jeans. It's possible to be surrounded by very expensive convenient magic, drowning in it, yet to own nothing and be subject to abject fealty and dependence. If one lacks the "digital literacy" (or whatever name we give empowering language that opens wide horizons) then like Palahniuk says, your stuff ends up owning you.