Commuting in Ottawa has become a 'living nightmare' | Letters to the Editor

We hold our portable, personal media devices out at different angles to look back at us for taking photos or livestreaming. We tap, rub, and caress their glass faces to do and make things. We ask them questions or make requests through their voice-activated virtual assistants. And when they beep, chime, vibrate, or illuminate, we reflexively pick them up and hold them close. The psychological conditioning produced by 1990s devices such as Tamagotchi is relevant, and even uncanny, when facing the trends of the 2020s and potentially beyond. Indeed, the Tamagotchi-clutching millennial...