The importance of having a life of the mind.
Your screen will not always be with you.
Maybe it’ll be an EMP.
Or illness in a hospital bed with beeps and a broken TV.
An apocalypse in which people fight for a single printed page.
Maybe it’ll just be today.
I worry about people who will arrive at some metaphorical waiting room in life, at a period of aloneness of starting over, or at the end of …