[contingencies]

Even the best conversationalists of yore would be hard-pressed to provide temporally scalable entertainment on demand 24x7x365 with personalized attentiveness, then momentarily fold down in to a pocket-sized container when no longer required.

It's no wonder that mobile devices are harvesting brain time ... people on the whole are still mentally weak, predictable, ego-first primates seeking the next neurotransmitter hit: anarchist theory be damned.