At age 7, Miyake survived the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, a fact he didn’t talk about for most of his life precisely to, as Vogue once pointed out, “avoid being called the designer who survived atomic bomb.”

It can feel as though every app is trying to guess what you want before your brain has time to come up with its own answer, like an obnoxious party guest who finishes your sentences as you speak them. We are constantly negotiating with the pesky figure of the algorithm, unsure how we would have behaved if we’d been left to our own devices. No wonder we are made anxious.