Lightning Talk: Is This Thing On?
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Lightning-fast list of concrete coping tactics for tech addiction when signal drops: treat airplane mode as a forced experiment, reread old tweets and calendar entries, visualize weekend plans, use Google Slides created on a flight (admitted dodgy but functional), take and save photos — including staged selfies with sleeping strangers and Snapchat drafts — and combine them into offline rituals. Central claim: social connection and simple offline practices get people through no-service stretches, and the in-flight demo actually works.
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