Reading and writing fill in the blanks

All of this suggests that our relationship to our phones might not be sufficiently intellectualised, which is why Brian Merchant’s book comes as a privilegedemotionreliefflash relief . Like the best historians, Merchant, an American journalist and editor of Vice Media’s technology blog, Motherboard, enrichesunpacksdispatchescontorts unpacks the history of the iPhone in a way that makes it seem both inevitable in its outline and surprisessurprisedsurprisingsurprise surprising in its details.