
The death of awe: How digital voyeurism is changing travel



Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many of us are now more intimately connected to smartphones than to nonmediated relationships with people. The net result of this insular life is that relationships with ourselves and... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
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