An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as “The iPhones of Fall,” The Atlantic, September 12, 2013. An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as “The Cigarette of this Century,” The Atlantic, June 6, 2012. An earlier version of chapter 6 appeared as “Hyperemployment, or the Exhausting Work of the Technology User,” The Atlantic, November 8, 2013. A portion of chapter 8 appeared as “Yo,” The Atlantic, June 19, 2014. An earlier version of chapter 9 appeared as “The End of the Hangup,” The Atlantic, March 15, 2013. Chapter 10 previously appeared in The Atlantic, September 16, 2014.
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