| You are right, it’s where things are going, but for me, it’s a question of how people choose to use their phones. In pre-pandemic days, I rarely brought my phone to the theater. I left it at home because I wanted to focus on the show with neither distractions nor temptations. I find that, for me, it’s necessary to disconnect from technology a few hours a day, like at a show or at dinner with friends. (I’m relieved to find, lately, that restaurants have rethought QR code menus and have gone back to printed menus; nothing more dispiriting than starting an evening with friends with everyone stating at their phones.) It’s one thing to have to stay connected at work, but it’s something else on my own time, and I resent the expectation that I will be tethered to my phone when I’m going to a movie or a show. I’m not a technophobe, just an old man, grumpy about technology, even as I type this on my iPad. |
