The author's husband Jason sent her an op-ed from the New York Times. The argument was made persuasively that when you have this most intimate of relations with a real person, like we're not living just by watching flickering images on our phone vicariously. "I do worry about people like being in their apartments, having their food delivered, being on their phone," she says.
Are we too busy watching Friends? Is porn driving us apart? And why did New Yorkers stop vacationing in the Catskills?
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