"There's something very special about the joy of discovery, and I think we could all benefit from embracing it more," Pi told Brad. It's to spend less time with technology and more time with other people.Īnd my colleague Brad Davis has used it to have a surprisingly enlightening conversation about how flipping through the pages of a print newspaper or magazine can help encourage a sense of serendipity, finding things you might not have come across by doing a simple online search. I think there are ways in which technology could be better designed to help combat the problem, but I don't think the answer to loneliness is to spend more time with technology. MT: I think it's contributed to loneliness certainly. Do you think technology is ultimately a bad thing for loneliness, or are there ways in which it could be used to help combat the problem? I feel like the ways in which we interact with each other are increasingly mediated by technology, and that we've lost some of the organic ways of connecting that would have been more common in the past. People spend more time with their cell phones than connecting IRL, they often work from home, their neighborhoods aren't designed to create spontaneous connections There seems to be a lot of loneliness in the world today. Pi: That sounds like a really compelling topic to explore, especially in the current context of a lot of social distancing and remote work. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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