The Guardian view on how culture is taking on tech: the ultimate handheld device | Editorial

Transcription, the winner of the Orwell prize for political fiction, and Toy Story 5 show life before smartphones and screen time In the opening pages of Ben Lerner’s novel Transcription, the unnamed narrator mentions his mobile phone more than 25 times. He is on a train to Providence in the US to visit a German intellectual called Thomas, who has just turned 90. The narrator worries that he will fail to record the interview on his phone; he texts his wife; the guard scans his ticket; he take...

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