Glorieta de la Transexual Sonia
People used to walk around unfamiliar cities without GPS-enabled smartphones. Picture a flock of tourists huddled around a poster-sized paper map that has been folded and refolded until the creases have frayed. They’re jabbing at the map and waving toward landmarks. They shield their eyes from the sun as they search in vain for street signs, arguing about whether the map is right side up or upside down. Ancient tools for ancient times. Today when we travel, we have much better tools. We’ve advanced. We huddle around a smartphone, not a paper map. True, we still jab and shield and search and argue, but at least we don’t have to fold the smartphone. Yet.
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