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Our impersonal age is killing human contact
AT A certain age, we tend to look back more often, re-living pleasurable times. Looking forward is a different matter. What’s behind us is done and dusted, but who doesn’t feel more than a little anxious about what the future might bring?
My worry lately is that part of that future will involve less and less face-to-face human contact (I don’t mean faces on Skype). Real human connection seems to be well down the list of our priorities as we reshape our world and abandon older ways.
New technology is so beguiling that we don’t seem to notice that there’s a down side.
People need people. Seeing folk on screen, or hearing them on the phone, is not the real thing – no matter what
