The Flight From Conversation

By SHERRY TURKLE:  WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.                                                                                                           At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work executives text during board meetings. We text (and shop and go on Facebook) during classes and when we’re on dates. My students tell me about an important new skill: it involves maintaining eye contact with someone while you text someone else; it’s hard, but it can be done...Continue reading...