iPod Cocoons

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Describing how iPods insulate their owners — including many New Yorkers — from their environment, Warren St. John writes in the New York Times, “There is no rewinding or CD-changing to permit the outside world to leak inside the cocoon. With a jukebox in your pocket, a suitable tune is always at the ready, no matter your mood. And if you have little white ear buds rammed in your ears, there is always an excuse not to acknowledge fellow humans. ’I’m busy right now,’ iPod users seem to say. ’I’ll get back to you in 10,000 songs.’” [Feb 16] [Apple Hot News]