The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness (Contemporary Issues)
By Giles Slade.
Description
How our long affair with ever-new technologies has undermined interpersonal relationshipsTablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise our growing inability to trust others. According to recent surveys, at any given moment, sixty million Americans—or 20 percent of the population7mdash;feel sufficiently isolated to report that loneliness is a major source of unhappiness. Have we arrived at a new kind of consciousness in which electronic int...
ISBN(s)
1616145951, 9781616145958
