'Around every corner lurks a blue-light-blasting panel — and to me, each one is a threat'
That’s a problem. Photo: JANIFEST/Getty Images/iStockphoto On the subway to see my neurologist at NYU Langone, I count Reeboks and Docs. Shoes bore me, but I study them because I can’t look at the digital route maps, the big glowing ads, or the phones in people’s hands. When I get to the hospital, I try to press the digital buttons outside the elevator without looking. In the waiting room, I check in on an iPad , then try to find a chair that isn’t facing a TV.
I quit working as a teaching artist in part because so many public-school classrooms have Smart Boards. I love dining outdoors — I no longer need to parenthesize my hands at my temples to shield my eyes from the TVs ubiquitous in restaurants. In cabs, I keep my eyes closed, not wanting days of pain from the onboard entertainment playing loops of The View. I am vigilant about fending off pet emergencies since screens are such a dominant interior feature at VERG.
More and more, I see screens taking over public space. The new Moynihan Train Hall terrorizes me. I wonder whether we truly need the tampon dispensers in public restrooms to play videos. I find many delis no longer inhabitable, museums no longer oases. I dread the near future, when paper menus become obsolete, and when, as is already true at JFK’s eateries, iPads replace servers. In this physiologically specific way, I worry about being pushed out.
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