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» Burdens of the Modern Beast. From Home to Office to School to Gym, Our Stuff Is Too Much With Us. I've been saying this for years:

The Walkman, introduced in 1979, Hine says in an e-mail, "probably set the precedent; it allowed people to be physically in a space, but mentally detached. The plethora of 'communications' devices we carry are also tools of isolation from the immediate environment."

(via 43f)