In a world made small by smartphones, we crave escape into otherness | Brigid Delaney

It's easy to romanticise places where the thing that has you in its thrall hasn't arrived yet - until you realise it may not have arrived for market-driven reasons

Whether the world feels small, close and manageable, or foreign, unknowable and chaotic, says something about where you live and what sort of device you carry in your hand.

For the former, the world is made small by smartphones.