Henry David Thoreau spent over two years in a cabin he had built in the woodlands of Massachusetts owned by his friend and contemporary Ralph Waldo Emerson. He used this alone time to write his most known work – Walden , a transcendentalist piece discussing how to live simply in nature. And then one day, Thoreau heard a steam locomotive and it disrupted his meditation and piece. The machine in the garden appeared. Over a century later, Leo Marx built on this remark in his work The Machine in the Garden , a literary criticism of industrialization of America, where he discussed the disturbance in the pastoral scenery by technological advancements. Nobody likes to be disturbed, yet today we have all these devices around us that are built precisely for that purpose – to distract us from whatever we are doing and engage us in something else. We have somehow learnt to accept that this is the reality of the modern technology and we are trying to mute the disturbances as much as we can, whil...