Pratica di Shadowing: Book Club Debate: Is Technology Making Us Lonelier? - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Right, shall we get started? Tonight's book is The Quiet Crowd.
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The author argues that technology is quietly eroding real connection.
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Graham, you looked unconvinced when I said that.
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Unconvinced? I think she's absolutely spot on.
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I watched a family of four at dinner last week.
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Not one of them looked up from their phone for twenty minutes.
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They were together in the loosest possible sense.
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That's a vivid image, but it's hardly conclusive evidence.
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You're generalising from one table in one restaurant.
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My grandmother lives alone in a village in Kerala.
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Without video calls, she'd see her grandchildren once a year.
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Technology hasn't isolated her. If anything, it's done the opposite.
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Fair enough, but that's a tool being used deliberately.
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Most of us are just scrolling to fill a silence.
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So the distinction is between connecting and merely consuming?
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Exactly. The device is neutral. The habit is the problem.
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I'd push back on neutral. These apps are engineered to be addictive.
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You can't blame the moth for flying into the lamp.
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That's a rather bleak metaphor, Graham.
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I'm a bleak sort of chap.
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I'll grant you that the design is manipulative.
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But we've survived moral panics about novels, radio and television.
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None of those were in your pocket at three in the morning.
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True, and I don't have a tidy answer to that.
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Let me play devil's advocate for a moment.
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Perhaps loneliness was always there, and phones just make it visible.
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Or perhaps they give us a convenient excuse to avoid each other.
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Can't both be true? The book never really considers that.
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It doesn't, and I think that's its main weakness.
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So, final verdicts. Out of five?
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A four. Overstated, but it struck a nerve.
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A three. Important questions, lazy conclusions.
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A three and a half, then. Same time next month?
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Only if someone chooses something cheerful.
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