One of the weirder components of something I've been writing is that people generally just use their cybernetics to read. You have what amounts to a window manager built into your head, and obviously you don't want to obscure your vision, but it's generally a lot more practical to just have a piece of media tracked to a hand or surface, or set to be slid into your peripheral vision if your focus changes. Paper media and such are still a thing, and obviously poverty and health issues affect the level of cybernetics someone can have, or even wants, but it's pretty common to just simulate a piece of media for yourself. So if someone is staring into space, they're probably just reading or watching something.
Writing SF as an autistic person: less concerned with the academic distinction between man and machine (boring, pointless) than whether I can manually turn the brightness down on my vision.
