Another Symptom of Growing Isolation - The Atlantic

A recent study found that people spoke fewer words a day in 2019 than in 2005.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 8:01 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In Europe in the 1700s, coffeehouses were sources of coffee, but also conversation. As the MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle points out in her 2016 book, Reclaiming Conversation , many people went to coffeehouses specifically to have rich, deep, sometimes even confrontational discussions: She quotes the British essayist and politician Joseph Addison, who wrote in 1714, “I have taken a particular Care never to be of the same Opinion with the Man I conversed with.” Contrast this

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