India, Nov. 9 -- They once feared it would take over the world. Access to a small, personal screen would draw us in, serve as the eyes and ears of the establishment, isolate us from each other. It turned out, of course, that the fears weren't entirely unfounded. Once we had shrunk the magic of the moving picture down to the size of a box, there would be no going back. It has only shrunk further from there. Much of our extended screentime is now spent in front of our phones, whose flickering personalised algorithms keep us riveted as they peddle, pitch and endlessly capture attention and data, even as night turns to morning and we lie side by side, late into the night. Soon, this may feel out-of-date. The future could be a world of screenles...