'Once you start looking for it, it’s everywhere. Once you become anxious about it, witnessing it at scale can feel like wandering among zombies. The bus, the Luas, all festooned with rows of people peering down at their phones.' Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
The green bicycle icon on the traffic light illuminates and I push out, the filter allowing me to take a position in front of the cars headed the same way. From this vantage point I have an unfettered view of the drivers queuing in oncoming traffic. All five are tilted in a solemn bow down into phones in their laps. They twitch a little, remembering that some fleeting upward attention is required to spot the car in front moving off, thus signalling the return to another stint of the driving that i
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