“Did you expect to spend your summer trying to figure out if an air purifier made by a Bluetooth speaker company was going to be sufficient to clear the atmosphere in your isolation pod on an increasingly hostile planet?”

In the New York Times, John Herrman writes about how life in 2020 has driven a new “gadget boom.” (“It appears the gadget apocalypse has been averted, due in part to threats of actual apocalypse,” he explains.)

It’s tempting to quote every line from this piece. It’s brimming with insights about how we live and shop today, with a haymaker of a final paragraph. I invite you, simply, to read it:

Gadgets Were on the Way Out. Then 2020 Happened.