ABSTRACT
Every morning when I wake up, I reach over to the bedside table and slide my finger across the surface of my smart phone, flicking it to life. Since I went to sleep last night, I gained 65 new tweets, 33 email messages, six instant messages, and dozens of Facebook notifications. A stream of news awaits me, pre-filtered by my settings … or my friends. I scan through some of it and send a few tweets to my friends in Europe and Australia. I reply to a few work-related email messages from colleagues in Denmark.
