Consider the growing anxieties surrounding the smart phone and the increasing life functions packed into the technology, or else the more general collective reliance on Internet technologies. The constant spatial expansion and movement of our social production, and the constant acceleration of the speed of those things, induces an intense need for technologies to bridge those growing gaps. And at the same time as more economic activity is migrated onto those channels, or otherwise makes critical use of them, the physical institutions, techniques, and traditions that people rely on daily diminish and atrophy, at least on a collective level. And then at the same time, the growing and concentrating monopolies accelerate this transfer, and destroy the many smaller pockets of resistance, and then of course the pandemic only further amplifies this trend. Of course there is an anxiety around the continuing availability and function of a smart phone or personal computer.
