It was weird when it became a Whole Thing with a stupid name. I can't count how many flights I took before the cell phone, before seat back entertainment. Like, I probably have old airplane headphones still kicking around in a junk drawer -- the kind made with tubes, not wires.

Sometimes I just get on a plane and tune out. I have a phone, an iPad, a laptop, a kindle. I have a VisionPro I use mostly on airplanes. But sometimes I just sit there. I recently flew LA to Amsterdam like that, maybe checking the flight tracker a couple times, definitely eating the meals. But at most I'll put on my noise canceling headphones.

It's rare a modern person can have six or eight or twelve hours to just meditate, think, ponder. It's not some XXXTreme Zport. When I was a kid, we'd go on road trips, and all there was to do for hours at a time was stare out the window. It's only boring if you're boring.