As I described in Chapter 5, when people find themselves having to stand still for more than thirty seconds, they will invariably pull out their phone and check it. They are not necessarily checking it because a message or email has dinged, beeped, or buzzed. There might not be anything new there at all. There’s no actual unknown tugging at their instincts. There is instead that fear of silence that forces us to fill the void with more stimulus.
But the fear of silence goes even deeper.
Through the constant ...
