Ever feel like an invisible stranger among friends who are staring intently into their phones? Or perhaps you're the one doing the staring. These feelings are common in today's ultra-connected world.
To illustrate the point, My Science Academy put together a two-minute video called "I Forgot My Phone." In the video, a young woman makes her way through the day surrounded by people on their phones.
Three years ago, I wrote about the dangers of this emerging culture of self-imposed solitary confinement when visiting the UCLA campus and observing students there. My article, The Lonely Life of an iPhone Addict, cites a Stanford study that found one out of four students describes the iPhone as "dangerously alluring."
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