Glad you liked it! Very good question about today's digital tools. I can't be quite sure what the effects will be, but my sense is ...

... going by the record of history and freak-outs over novels, when pondering how digital tech affects us, we should probably ignore the most loudly-touted concerns (it's turns us into narcissists; it irrevocably destroys our attention span; it makes us aggressive and violent) since those are the ones that have been commonly levied against basically all forms of new media, from novels to comics to newspapers etc.

Then the next step is to consider the changes that are more subtle and thus harder to spot, but more durable!

That's a lot harder. I could throw out some hypotheses, like ...

- digital technology makes the internal lives of more people newly *visible* to more people. When we can see pictures / tweets / videos / posts by billions of folks, which we had no way of observing until around the early 2000s, it probably has some profound but complex impact on how we understand the world. To pick just *one* guess here, we're possibly liable to overattribute the frequency of things/views/positions that are actually not that common but prominently stated often enough online that they feel more common? Which could cut a lot of ways, positive and negative ...

- we live in a world with a lot more media communication done in an causal, informal, oral style -- from jokey tweets to tik tok videos to messaging apps. I personally think a lot of this is great; it opens up expressivity that's different from previous decades of media communication (TV, film, newspaper) where the main utterances were pretty formal and stylized, so it adds a lot paint colors to our expressive palette. But maybe it also makes a lot of everyday communication less precise? Again, I see this one as more positive, but I'm sure other folks would disagree ...

That's just the tip of the iceberg. The "subtle" changes are wildly numerous! Tons of 'em, including many I've probably never thought to notice ...