The more I interact with post-millennials the more convinced I am that the internet’s (and society’s) shift in the last decade hasn’t been about “social media” but about smartphones, that the internet isn’t even a place you go anymore but something omnipresent everyone takes with them, so there’s no experience you have in isolation cut off from the akasha.

“Grew up with a smartphone” starting to seem as significant a distinction as “grew up with the internet” was for us.