At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, there has always been something about the Sphere that’s rubbed me the wrong way. The orbicular theater, uncanny and monolithic, is parked like a spaceship on the northern reaches of the Las Vegas Strip with technical specifications that boggle the mind. The Sphere, fashioned by MSG Entertainment, contains a 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED screen, equivalent to about three football fields, that pumps out crystalline images so bright, clear, and rich with detail that they threaten to melt the skin off your bones.

It’s a genuinely remarkable work of technology—I am not trying to be a Luddite here. Instead, my gripes are more philosophical. When the Sphere opened to the public in 2023 with a U2 residency, I watched as clips circulated through soci

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