When tech adds to our lives it also subtracts. For example, the prophets of the Internet in the 90s told us the Web would expand our consciousness by connecting us to millions of people across the world. That consciousness, however, was stolen from other parts of our lives. An ancient person witnessing modern ‘phone zombies’ crashing into each other on the side-walk would view them as utterly disconnected from awareness. We’re not gods with an infinite ability to rest our senses simultaneously on infinite numbers of things. So, when something new makes a claim upon our finite attention, something else must fall away. In this case what falls away is connection to our surroundings, to our bodies, or to our family sitting a metre away at the dinner table