Last week I found myself lying prone on an operating table, awaiting arthroscopic surgery. I remember mumbling something about my eyeglasses just before the lights went out. Holes were poked into my knee, cartilage was removed, bone was micro-fractured, and then I was sent home. Nearly twenty years ago, I'd had a similar procedure. But this time, something was different.
Spending four days on the couch meant I had a lot of time to sit with myself, and when I say "with myself," I mean "with technology." That has been the biggest difference between 1997, when I last had surgery, and now: all of the tech, the online video services, the social networks, the ridiculously capable hand computers we carry with us everywhere.
The last time I...
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