Speaking about television in an interview conducted ten years before the launch of the iPhone, David Foster Wallace put it like this: The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but [who] want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main sta