I was driving home from Palo Alto to San Francisco, a journey I’d done dozens upon dozens of times before. Only this time, I faced a problem: a phone without power; a journey without GPS. I missed my exit and became hopelessly lost in streets less than a mile from my home. How embarrassing: I claim to love this city, and yet in that moment I felt I barely knew it. Suddenly deprived of my tech, I was unable to find my way, because I had never needed to actually learn it.
我正從帕洛奧圖開車回舊金山的家,這段路我已經開過幾十次了。但這次我遇到了一個問題:手機沒電了;整個行程都沒有GPS。我錯過了出口,在離家不到一英里的街道上絕望地迷了路。多麼令人尷尬,我口口聲聲說自己熱愛這座城市,可在那一刻,我覺得自己幾乎不瞭解它。突然間失去了我的科技產品,我連路都找不到,因爲我從來沒有真正需要學習路線。
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