“On or about December 1910,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1924, “human nature changed.” She was referring to the whole spectrum of human relations—personal, political, public, and private—shifting at the onset of modernism.
You could say that on or about December 2010 (or whenever the damn smartphone came out) the human species changed. Anyway, that’s how Roger put it.
AI shortly to do all work for us, the machines, “alive” with devices in our hands, probes in our ears and screens as omni-reference points—something terminal changed of late.
I’m hoping someone invents the wise phone soon