What Happens When Our Fingers Do the Talking

It’s awfully quiet with our heads all down. Photo: Esther Vargas
Last week, I had a very long conversation with a woman who specializes in them: Sherry Turkle. The clinical psychologist, scholar and author of Reclaiming Conversation has some pretty alarming anecdotes about the ways our smartphones have affected the time we spend face-to-face with each other, based upon hours of interviews with students, CEOs, singles, and parents.
We have all experienced this, or done this ourselves&mdash