For the past many months, I’ve been working on this piece that traces technological distraction back to the rise of the kaleidoscope in 1816 and 1817. This article was just published in Atlas Obscura, an amazing online magazine! If you’re interested in finding out how kaleidoscopes were once just as distracting to the general public as our current smartphones are to us, please check out my article! 
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