Today's cars have been called smartphones on wheels. Driving one ought to send a chill up and down your spine, not from the exhilaration but from the danger.
Your look goes viral, and the fashion industry has to respond to you. Selfies have turned around the industyr's balance of power, Maybe they're not so bad after all.
How, I wonder, will things be different for today’s twenty-somethings when their mental self-images change but they find that, like tattoos, their selfies are forever?
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