We all know we’re paying a price for the popularity of smart phones.
We’ve lost privacy.
We’ve lost the ability to be unconnected.
We’ve lost time, hours of it, due to Candy Crush.
But maybe the price is even higher than we realized. At least, that feeling stuck with me after reading Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. It’s a well-researched passionate diatribe against the effects phones have on our conversational skills, especially those of teens and millennials. [Read more…] about Losing Conversation: The Price We Pay for Smartphones