Can Miranda July's Somebody app really make us talk to strangers?

July’s app enlists ordinary people to deliver your message – but after one week and 85 attempts, I didn’t speak to a stranger and a stranger didn’t speak to meTalking to strangers is easy if you have a purpose. That’s how salesmen and Jehovah’s Witnesses do it – how they march up to another person and brazenly annex their time. The social contract traditionally divides us from our fellow man, and so we go about our business keeping mainly to ourselves. But Miranda July’s Somebody