Of course, this behavior seems perfectly normal in an urban neighborhood in 2013. Outside, on the street, it was the same-every person at the bus stop and most of the pedestrians passing by peered into smartphones, tablets and laptops, oblivious to the world around them. I looked up to realize that everyone else in the place also had their eyes fixed upon some form of glowing rectangular screen. But as I sat in a cafe reading George Saunders’ Tenth Of December on my e-reader, I couldn’t shake an eerie sensation that something was off. The same cheap restaurants, dingy dives and crowded coffee shops lined the streets of University Avenue. Not much had changed since I went to school there in the early ‘00s. The other day, I spent a few hours walking around Seattle’s University District.
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