It's remarkable the ways the Internet has transformed us. We've been quietly beguiled by technology that doesn't look or feel like, well… like technology. We're connected — inexorably, insidiously connected — in ways that just a few years ago we might not have imagined, and yet today we take wholly for granted.
For your consideration, Roger Mummert's slice of modern life via the NYTimes travel section — At a Family Gathering, an Internet Cafe Breaks Out.
That was my first inkling of how the vastly expanded electronic and informational needs of houseguests would flavor our time together.
Welcome, to this modern life.