hat it’s doing to me.
Our collective cultural embrace of the Internet, social media, and the litany of mobile devices represents a massive shift in human behavior. Family members text one another from different rooms in the same house. We move about with ear buds in our ears or our thumbs working a mobile keyboard—or both. At any public place with an Internet connection, we sit by ourselves, digesting media along with our coffee and scones, or engaging in communication with perhaps thousands of friends or connections—just not the person seated across the table.