On The (Failed) Digitization of Our Social Lives

Written by owenauch | Published 2020/06/08
Tech Story Tags: covid19 | coronavirus | technology | zoom | digital | data-modeling | anxiety | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR The first day of plague quarantine is the first day we've been writing this week. The author of this week's Daily Mail has been forced to take a break from social life. She says she's felt lethargic and drained as her creativity has shrunk in proportion with her smaller social life, smaller set of experiences, and generally smaller world. Despite the fact that we can still connect with others digitally, there’s something missing. We desire to actually be together, and technology like video chat promises to give us the togetherness that we so desperately crave.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/06/08