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How digital communication replaces human connection

I work from home and realize I have not had a real conversation with another human in four days, just Slack messages and video calls.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Virtual interaction substitutes create a subtle but persistent form of relational malnutrition.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist contemplative computing?”

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