During the solar eclipse on April 8, Internet activity plummeted across North America. It might be safe to assume that the next time North Americans will be similarly disconnected (or connected to their surroundings) will be August 23, 2044, when the next solar eclipse is scheduled to return to the continental United States.
Or perhaps it won’t be safe to assume that. By 2044, there will probably be AR headsets that replace those quaint flimsy eclipse glasses from the library by automatically darkening at the time of the eclipse, complete with AR infographics with fun and educational facts as well as some hopeful AI-generated music.
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