More than likely, you’ve been asked by a friend or acquaintance the following get-to-know-you question: “What would you bring if you were stranded on a deserted island?”

Be it books, films or music, people will predictably take their favorite forms of media with them to solitary sands. That’s obvious, because no one is going to voluntarily listen to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch on cassette for 10 years while waiting for a Carnival cruise ship to pass by. Have we already forgotten what technological isolation did to Tom Hanks?

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