"WE expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship. Always-on/always-on-you devices provide three powerful fantasies: that we will always be heard; that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; and that we never have to be alone. Indeed our new devices have turned being alone into a problem that can be solved."Read the entire article here and then go do something that doesn't involve the internets, b.
"The Flight From Conversation" by Sherry Turkle
Apr 22, 2012
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