Just imagine back then that you would – decades later (i.e. today) — carry a device with you almost every waking moment of your waking life.
It's in the air, every moment of your waking life.
Though Buchheit's name may be unfamiliar, it is very likely that his inventions occupy much of your waking life.
In order to speak a language like Guugu Yimithirr, you need to know where the cardinal directions are at each and every moment of your waking life.
Say you spend just one hour a day reading about books - in a year you'll have burned up two weeks of your waking life.
In Nigeria, what happened on the night of April 14th, 2014, can seem like a fever dream, a surreal nightmare that, as soon as you wake up, lingers uncomfortably, poking at the edges of your waking life.
If, during any other moment of your waking existence, you were presented with a print-out of a meerkat in a Christmas hat, a euphemistic joke about dicks or a black-and-white photo of someone from the 50s saying something anachronistic, you'd question, at best, the giver's sanity, at worst, their intelligence, and slowly edge away, not turning your back until you'd left the building.
Or will they send them to your smartwatch so you have to spend every spare moment of your waking life flicking your wrist to wade through their never-ending texts?
Or to stop having to spend most of your waking moments planning your eating.
Your money, your time and most of your waking moments are spent dealing with the charges against you.
The default network is active for most of your waking moments and doesn't take much effort to operate.
