The decline of conversation is often blamed on Google, and the ability to fact-check anything in seconds. But Tom actually uses DuckDuckGo, which doesn't collect user data. Results aren't quite as relevant as Google, he explains, but inconvenience is a small price to pay for privacy.
My offline friend E has, in his words, reinvented the mixtape. He hands me a digital radio, which he has pre-loaded with 5,000 curated songs on a memory disc, to be played at random. This is light years away from Spotify where, in the face of unlimited choice, I often blank and play the last album I listened to again.
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