We’re all spending a lot more time on Zoom these days. Hangouts with friends are a lot like work meetings are a lot like coffee chats are a lot like calls to family.

And we’re all spending a lot more time thinking about—and commenting on—our Zoom backgrounds. Room rating is a thing.

I wonder how the developmental psychologist Jean Piaget would have gotten along with it all.

I mean, I don’t think he’d have cared very much at all. But still.