William Bennett’s Reviews > London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth > Status Update

“… he did inhabit a world in which social media was beginning to blur the boundary between reality and fantasy. Increasingly, any sense of a shared conscious existence was starting to give way to a more individualized, algorithmically bespoke form of virtual reality, in which our most personal and idiosyncratic anxieties and aspirations are reflected back at us, and magnified, by our smartphones.”