Around the World in 80 Gigs: One Global Journey, Sponsored by Irony
A big bold beautiful journey used to mean a silk-lined suitcase, a steamer ticket, and the faint hope that your name wouldn’t be misspelled at Ellis Island. Today it means 4.9 billion smartphones chanting the same algorithmic rosary while their owners scroll through thirty-seven near-identical photos of someone’s brunch in Bali. The distance between romance…