Zero gravity basketball and interstellar sub-orbital colonies... meh. What's that compared to having a portable computer-phone that not only allows me to watch videos of kittens and download porn anywhere I go, but also insulates me from the terrors of having to engage the people I'm around in a conversation for longer than two minutes? Hang on, let me text a few friends and see if they want to come by the bar and join us in collectively checking our phones every few minutes.

