Walter Benjamin basically predicted this in The Storyteller (1936) — nearly a century before smartphones: > "If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, bor

Walter Benjamin basically predicted this in The Storyteller (1936) — nearly a century before smartphones: > "If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."