A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another.The landlines and mobile phones used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent.Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a setback to the intimacy of human interaction.As almost every conceivable contact between human beings gets automated, the alienation index goes up. You can'...
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