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“We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“Ray, twenty-eight, comments on what it’s like to have a relationship when you compete with screens: “I think the way we’re going, a lot of people are getting the feeling that even though the person they’re with is there, you don’t get the feeling of real connection. You just have information.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“become accustomed to seeing life as something we can pause in order to document it, get another thread running in it, or hook it up to another feed. We’ve seen that in all of this activity, we no longer experience interruptions as disruptions. We experience them as connection. We seek them out, and when they’re not there, we create them. Interruptions enable us to avoid difficult feelings and awkward moments. They become a convenience. And over time we have trained our brains to crave them. Of course, all of this makes it hard to settle down into conversation.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“The web promises to make our world bigger. But as it works now, it also narrows our exposure to ideas. We can end up in a bubble in which we hear only the ideas we already know. Or already like.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
“It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.”
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
― Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
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