You can spot the NPCs who lack internal monologue by their fascination with this niggertech. The only people truly impressed by A/R are people who cannot imagine the likeness of an apple or rotate a cube in their mind.
To these people seeing digital timers above cooking pots is life changing because they never had the capacity to conceptualize the reality of the abstract lengths of time on their own.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/72342711-daf0-4b99-a9a1-92715dee3863