Patrick Lagacé Reflects on How Smartphones Have Split Modern Life Into Parallel Real and Virtual Existences, Drawing on More Than 300 Reader

Lagacé recounts a vacation argument with his wife, who was upset to see him reading a magazine article on his phone rather than on paper. "Your phone, I see it all year long, she told him. "We had just had the discussion about our phones, on vacation.

About the need to unplug. All year, you're on your phone, it's an extension of your arm. For him, reading an article on his phone made no difference; for her, it was a