On my way to Madrid, I was stunned by the amount of “screen time” the passengers were subject to. I had not been on an overseas flight in years, and the screen time had definitely increased. First, there was music playing while we waited for the plane to take off. Then, the safety instructions were on the screens. After that, there were three movies shown for a seven-hour flight. Watching the movies definitely made the time go by, but being stuck sitting in one small spot watching TV and being fed for seven hours felt like being in a comfort-cage. To make a movie-to-movie connection, I felt like one of the future humans in Wall-E, who never move out of their chairs, ignore the people around them, continually watch their virtual friends on a screen, and drink all their food through a straw in a to-go cup.
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