July 27, 2026 | danielb7@mit.edu
Another symptom of growing isolation
An Atlantic story about research into why people spend less time speaking with one another cites MIT professor Sherry Turkle, whose 2016 book “Reclaiming Conversation” recalls a time when “many people went to coffeehouses specifically to have rich, deep, sometimes even confrontational discussions.”
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