Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term “downshifting” has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.
Well, at one time, the U.S. was called a melting pot, you know, which means that people of many different religions, cultures and races could shed their traditional cultural identities and blend into one homogeneous nation.
Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.