As we root out suspicious technology and surveillance appliances and invasive apps and the farcical oligarchal news sources and a long list of boycotts from our lives....
we are increasingly reduced to sitting by the fire in silence, reading a paper book while timing the strawberry jam with a spring-loaded egg timer that goes "ding" with an actual bell when it's finished.
Which is not what I thought 2025 would be like, but kind of great.