In 1979, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka asked his engineers for a portable cassette player he could use on long flights. What they built changed the way humans occupy public space. The Walkman taught a generation that you could be physically present and socially absent at the same time. This is how a single Sony product quietly rewrote the rules of public life, and an argument that the loneliness we now blame on smartphones actually started with a cassette player in 1979.

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