My journey to the office involves a short bus ride from my home to the bus station, where I join some of my co-workers in waiting for the company shuttle to arrive, and drive us the 45 minutes or so out to Westford,MA.

On the ride to the station this morning, I sat at the back of the bus, listening to music, and observed the other passengers on the bus. The majority of the 30 or so people on the bus were staring intently at their iphones/blackberry’s/whatevers for the whole journey.

It felt surreal and detached to sit back, look out of the window on a sunny Monday morning for the rest of the journey. I started pondering about how it wasn’t that long ago, that none of this would have been possible. How today, for better or worse, everywhere we go, we have the internet in our pockets.

It’s incredibly useful to have (and you can pry my iphone from my cold dead hands), but at the same time, sometimes it’s nice to just sit back and watch the scenery go by instead of checking email.

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