How Technology Is Muting Our Capacity to Communicate

From analog dreams to digital dystopia

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Last week, I visited a nursing home and was struck by the sense that I had stepped back in time. It felt like I was in a time capsule.

The place was filled with relics of a bygone era: cassette tapes featuring music from before I was born, VHS tapes, and a fax machine. In one of the…