I usually ride my bike to work, but in the last few weeks before parental leave, I have been catching the tram. If you look around you on the tram on a morning commute, you’ll find it difficult to see anyone without a digital extension of themselves in their hands – head down, peripheral vision almost shut off, swiping away in the digital realm. As we depend on our digital appendages more and more, we are at risk of becoming increasingly disconnected from the specifics of place, from the natural world and from
