Life in the Internet age has undoubtedly helped a certain ironic
sensibility to flourish. An ethos can be disseminated quickly and widely
through this medium. Our incapacity to deal with the things at hand is
evident in our use of, and increasing reliance on, digital technology.
Prioritizing what is remote over what is immediate, the virtual over the
actual, we are absorbed in the public and private sphere by the little
devices that take us elsewhere.