Tim Calpin News Today

Sometime in the summer of 2009 I opened video on-demand as I played World of Warcraft deep into the night. Usually, I’d be chatting with my high school friends who also played, running something I’d seen a million times before like King of the Hill (1997-2010) in the background, half-watching, half-socializing, half-playing in that exceeds 100% way of multitasking that atrophies around age 21. Not this time though. This time I was alone and willing to do whatever it took not to go to bed. An...